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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Canada), Montreal |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio engraving on white cotton paper. The central vignette presents a classical allegorical group of two seated female figures, one holding a book and the other resting beside a terrestrial globe, rendered in fine line engraving against a lightly guilloche-patterned underprint. The bank title BARCLAYS BANK (CANADA) runs across the top in bold serif lettering, flanked by ornate lathe-work rosettes bearing the numeral 5, with the date Montreal, Sept. 3rd, 1929 and two manuscript signatures — those of the Manager and President — appearing in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely engraved in green, the reverse centres on a detailed architectural vignette of the Barclays Bank (Canada) head office building in Montreal, a multi-storey classical stone facade with arched windows and street-level figures, enclosed within a ruled frame. Symmetrical guilloche rosettes bearing the numeral 5 fill the left and right panels, while repeating lathe-work border patterns run along all four edges. |
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Barclays Bank (Canada) was a short-lived subsidiary, chartered in 1919 as the bank's first attempt at direct retail operations in North America rather than simply correspondent relationships. By 1956 it had been absorbed into the broader Barclays network and ceased independent Canadian chartered bank status — making its note-issuing period narrow and its surviving paper relatively uncommon.
The Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa printed for most of the chartered banks by this period, and the series follows the Dominion-era chartered bank format required under the Bank Act. J. Borden as signing president is not to be confused with Sir Robert Borden, the former Prime Minister — a conflation that occasionally surfaces in auction descriptions.