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| Emisor | Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory |
|---|---|
| Año | 1820-1828 |
| Tipo | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Leyenda del anverso | Five Shillings Sterl. HUDSONS BAY COMPANY Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of Five Shillings Sterl. at York Factory in Ruperts Land, on a Bill of Exchange payable Sixty days after Sight at the HUDSONS BAY HOUSE, London. For the Governor & Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudsons Bay. Issued at YORK FACTORY Secretary Governor Accountant |
| Descripción del reverso | The reverse is largely plain paper with faint printed text visible at the top from show-through of the obverse. The lower portion carries two horizontal bands of intricate lathe-work guilloche ornament in fine engraved line work, forming a decorative panel of interlocking scrollwork across the full width of the note. |
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| Comentarios |
Hudson's Bay Company operated its own internal currency system across its trading posts long before any colonial banking infrastructure existed in Rupert's Land. These notes circulated exclusively within HBC posts as wage instruments — issued to employees whose earnings were credited against goods purchased from the Company store, a closed economy that suited the Company's interests considerably more than those of its workers.
York Factory, on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay, was the Company's primary depot and administrative hub in the region. Notes attributed to that post are among the earliest surviving paper instruments from what would become Canada's Northwest. The series runs across nearly a decade, suggesting reissue rather than a single print run.