5 Dollars / Piastres

Obverse description	Early Canadian colonial note with a central vignette of a seated female allegorical figure in a landscape, flanked by two oval counters bearing the numeral 5 at left and the Roman numeral V at right, with the issuer's name 'Bank of Canada' rendered in ornate script across the centre. The promise-to-pay text is hand-lettered in copperplate script, referencing Montreal as place of issue. The left margin carries a vertical 'CINQ PIASTRES' inscription, and the note bears manuscript serial number, date, and two manuscript signatures of the Cashier and President at the lower register.
Obverse lettering	The President Directors and Company of the Bank of Canada promise to pay the bearer FIVE dollars on demand out of the Joint Funds of the Association and no other Montreal CINQ PIASTRES Cash: Pres:
Reverse description	Plain unprinted reverse of cream-coloured cotton paper, heavily aged and worn, with several manuscript endorsements or signatures written in ink across the surface, consistent with early 19th-century bearer note practice.
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