5 Dollars / Piastres

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Legenda del dritto	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:
Descrizione del rovescio	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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Commenti	No Bank of Canada existed until 1934. Notes issued under that name in 1818–1823 almost certainly originate from one of the early Montreal-based private chartered banks — likely the Bank of Montreal, which received its charter in 1817 and began issuing bilingual dollar/piastre notes almost immediately. The dual denomination wording reflects Lower Canada's practical reality: a French-speaking population that calculated in livres and piastres alongside an anglophone merchant class working in dollars. The Pick reference P#1593 does not correspond to any entry in standard Krause/Pick cataloguing for the Bank of Canada series, which begins decades later. Verify the issuing institution before listing.