Catalog
| Issuer | Bank of Montreal |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse centres on a detailed architectural vignette of the Bank of Montreal's head office on Saint-Jacques Street, rendered with fine intaglio line work showing the Ionic colonnade facade, steps, and horse-drawn carriages in the foreground. The inscription BANK OF MONTREAL arches across the top within a decorative guilloche frame, while large ornamental numeral 5 ovals in green guilloche fill the left and right fields. FIVE DOLLARS appears in bold lettering below the central vignette, and CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, LIMITED is printed in small type at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF MONTREAL Five Dollars CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, LIMITED |
| Signature(s) | J. Gordon Dodds and C.B. Gordon |
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