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1 Dollar = 5 Shillings
| Uitgever | Farmer's Joint Stock Banking Co. |
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| Jaar | 1835 |
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| Samenstelling | Cotton paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Allegorical seated female figure at left; central vignette with farmers harvesting grain, cattle, and a mounted horseman alongside a figure with dog; female portrait vignette at lower right. Uniface note with no printed reverse. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Uniface note; reverse is blank, showing only aged cotton paper with no printed design or lettering. |
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The Farmer's Joint Stock Banking Co. was one of dozens of short-lived Upper Canadian private banks issuing notes in the 1830s, a period when chartered banking was tightly restricted and joint-stock institutions proliferated to fill the gap. The dual denomination — one dollar expressed simultaneously as five shillings — reflects the monetary awkwardness of colonial Upper Canada, where British sterling, American dollars, and local Halifax currency all circulated in parallel with no fixed statutory relationship between them.
Having the notes printed by the New England Bank Note Company in Boston was common practice for Canadian issuers of this period; domestic engraving capacity was essentially nonexistent, and Boston and New York firms dominated the trade. Whether the bank ever achieved meaningful circulation is doubtful — many joint-stock ventures of this era collapsed or were refused charters before their notes moved in any volume.