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100 Dollars / 20 Pounds, 16 Shillings, and 8 Pence Royal Bank of Canada
| Issuer | The Royal Bank of Canada |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1822-1964) |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio-engraved oval vignette of a seated allegorical female figure in a tropical landscape, a dove to her left, set against an orange guilloche underprint. Denomination counters at upper left and right read '100 Trinidad Dollars / The Equivalent of £20-16-8', with script lettering giving the place and date 'Port of Spain, Trinidad, January 2nd 1920' at lower left and 'One Hundred Trinidad Dollars the equivalent of £20-16-8' at lower right. A dark banner beneath the central vignette carries the legend 'THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS', with signature panels for General Manager and President in the lower orange band. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in orange on cream paper, the reverse centres on the British Royal Coat of Arms with lion and unicorn supporters, surmounted by the crown, and bearing the motto scroll 'DIEU ET MON DROIT'. Denomination panels flanking the arms read 'ONE HUNDRED TRINIDAD DOLLARS THE EQUIVALENT OF £20-16-8' on each side. The whole is enclosed within an elaborate lathe-work guilloche border with foliate corner ornaments, and the bank's name appears in a decorative cartouche at the base. |
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The curious dual denomination — $100 Canadian alongside its sterling equivalent — reflects the Royal Bank's heavy commercial presence in the Caribbean and Latin America during this period, where British West Indian trade still ran on sterling accounting. The conversion was fixed at the long-standing par of £1 = $4.8666, a rate with roots in the pre-Confederation monetary framework.
P#S153 is catalogued as a specimen or proof issue; no records confirm this design entered general circulation in quantity.