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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Banque du Peuple |
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| Year | 1836 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | Blue print with a central vignette of a standing male citizen in period coat and hat, set within an ornate engraved frame. Elaborate guilloche rosettes in vertical columns of three flank both left and right margins, against a blue lathe-work underprint. |
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| Variants | P#S879a - Title: Cassier at lower left. 2.3.1836 P#S879r - Company name at lower left. Remainder. 18xx |
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The Banque du Peuple was a Montreal cooperative banking venture incorporated in 1835, organized in part to serve the French-Canadian merchant class that found itself consistently underserved by the Bank of Montreal and other anglophone-controlled institutions. Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. in New York handled much of the engraved note printing for Canadian private banks during this period — the quality of their work was simply unavailable in Montreal at the time.
The bank survived until 1895, when it collapsed in a fraud scandal that wiped out a significant portion of its depositors. Notes from the 1836 emission predate that failure by nearly six decades.