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6 Dollars
| Issuer | Molsons Bank |
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| Year | 1871 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the bold heading 'DOMINION OF CANADA' above the central title 'Six Dollars / MOLSONS BANK' in large serif lettering with green overprint. Two oval portrait vignettes occupy the upper left and upper right corners, each showing a distinguished gentleman in formal Victorian attire. The central lower vignette presents a finely engraved pastoral scene with beaver and water, flanked by large ornate guilloche numeral '6' medallions at each side, with the serial number 04716 appearing twice across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMINION OF CANADA Six Dollars MOLSONS BANK Will pay to the bearer on demand Six Dollars Montreal CANADA 6 04716 |
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Molsons Bank — founded in 1855 as a chartered extension of the Molson brewing and commercial empire — issued denominations that deliberately avoided the standard tier. A 6 Dollar note is an oddity in any North American series; this value was intended to satisfy the practical arithmetic of the pre-decimal era, where a note exchangeable for one pound sterling at the then-current rate of roughly $4.86 required a denomination near that figure, and banks sometimes rounded to a commercially convenient equivalent.
The British American Bank Note Company had only been founded in 1866, making this 1871 issue among the printer's early chartered bank commissions out of Montreal.