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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Traders Bank of Canada, Toronto |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Green and black intaglio-printed note with a central vignette of a three-masted sailing ship in rough seas, flanked by large ornate guilloche medallions bearing the numeral "50" in dark ink on a red and green underprint. The bank title "THE TRADERS BANK OF CANADA" arcs across the top in bold serif lettering, with the date "25th JANUARY 1900" and issuing city "TORONTO" inscribed below the central vignette. The word "SPECIMEN" is overprinted in red at lower right, with cancellation punch holes, and a manuscript signature appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | FIFTY DOLLARS THE TRADERS BANK OF CANADA 50 |
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The Traders Bank of Canada was chartered in 1885 and remained a mid-sized Toronto institution until its absorption by the Royal Bank of Canada in 1912. Notes of this denomination from this issuer are genuinely scarce — the bank never had an extensive branch network, and high-denomination commercial bank notes of this period saw hard use in wholesale trade settlements before being retired quickly.
The American Bank Note Company's Ottawa plant, established to handle Canadian chartered bank work, produced this note. ABNC Ottawa output is sometimes conflated with their New York operation, but the Ottawa branch ran its own press records from the late 1890s onward.