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5 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque d'Hochelaga |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE D'HOCHELAGA PROVINCE DE QUÉBEC CINQ PIASTRES INCORPORÉE EN 1873 CAPITAL $1,000,000 PAIERA au porteur à demande, Montréal, le 2 Mai, 1898 CINQ CINQ CINQ CINQ CINQ CINQ CINQ FIVE FIVE FIVE FIVE FIVE FIVE FIVE 5 5 |
| Reverse description | Printed in green intaglio, the reverse is divided into three roundels set within an intricate guilloche border. The two outer roundels each bear a large numeral 5 within fine lathe-work patterns, while the central oval carries the arms of the Province of Quebec surmounted by a crown and enclosed in an ornate frame. The bank name BANQUE D'HOCHELAGA is inscribed in a straight legend across the lower portion of the note. |
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The Banque d'Hochelaga was a Montreal-based French-Canadian chartered bank founded in 1873 to serve a commercial community that felt systematically underserved by the anglophone banking establishment. By 1897, it had expanded well beyond its original Hochelaga neighbourhood base, though it remained distinctly Franco-Québécois in character until its 1924 merger into what became the Banque Canadienne Nationale.
ABNC held engraving contracts with most Canadian chartered banks of this period, producing notes for institutions that lacked any domestic high-security printing infrastructure. The "5 Piastres" denomination wording rather than "5 Dollars" is the detail that anchors this squarely in Quebec's parallel commercial French — piastre being the common vernacular unit regardless of what federal legislation called the currency.