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20 Dollars
| Issuer | City Bank |
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| Year | 18xx |
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| Currency | Canadian Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint. Oval portrait vignette of a gentleman at lower left and another at lower right. Central top vignette of cattle grazing in a pastoral landscape. Green guilloche panel bearing the denomination TWENTY DOLLARS at centre, with the bank name CITY BANK in bold letterpress above. Numeral 20 in ornate lathe-work rosettes at both lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | MONTREAL CITY BANK |
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City Bank was a common name across antebellum America — without a confirmed state charter or city of issue, this note's exact origin remains genuinely uncertain. The New England Bank Note Company, operating out of Boston, was one of the more prolific security printers of the pre-National Banking era, supplying plates and finished notes to dozens of state-chartered institutions across the country. The "S" prefix in the Pick reference confirms this as a scrip or obsolete issue, predating federal currency standardization.
The unspecified date range is typical of notes printed speculatively on commission, held by the issuing bank and signed or dated only upon actual release. Whether significant quantities ever reached circulation is unknown.