5 Dollars The Farmer's Joint Stock Bank, Second Issue

The Farmer's Joint Stock Banking Company was a short-lived Upper Canadian institution, chartered under the 1850 Free Banking Act framework but operating in the uncertain years just before that legislation consolidated the province's fractured note-issuing environment. Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson — the New York firm responsible for this note — were among the most prolific banknote printers in North America at the time, their plates appearing in circulation from Louisiana to Ontario.

The bank itself did not survive long enough to leave a substantial documentary record, which makes extant notes from any of its issues genuinely scarce primary material rather than simply collectible paper.