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10 Dollars = 2 Pounds-10 Shillings
| Issuer | Farmer's Joint Stock Banking Co. |
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| Year | 1835 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of two cherubs harvesting grapes; top left centre carries a livestock pastoral scene; a beehive vignette appears at right. The note is uniface, printed by letterpress and intaglio on plain cotton paper. |
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| Reverse lettering | JOINT-STOCK BANKING |
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The Farmer's Joint Stock Banking Co. operated out of Upper Canada, and this dual-denomination note — expressing value simultaneously in dollars and pounds-shillings — reflects the genuinely chaotic monetary environment of 1830s British North America, where American dollars, British sterling, and Halifax currency all circulated in parallel. Fixing an exchange rate directly onto the face of a note was a practical necessity, not an affectation.
The New England Bank Note Company printed extensively for Canadian private banks during this period; crossing the border for engraved security printing was routine when domestic capacity in Upper Canada was essentially nonexistent.