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20 Dollars = 5 Pounds
| Uitgever | Bank of British North America |
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| Jaar | 184x |
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| Referentie(s) | P#S319 |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Black intaglio print on white paper. Left vignette of a Montreal cityscape; upper centre carries a vignette of three allegorical female figures; right vignette shows a monument flanked by houses. A small supported royal arms appears at bottom centre. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain unprinted verso in aged brown-toned paper, bearing only manuscript annotations and handwritten numerals in ink, with a small red mark at upper right; no engraved or typeset design elements present. |
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The Bank of British North America was chartered in London in 1836 and operated as a British joint-stock bank across the Canadian colonies — unusual in that its head office never moved to Canada. This dual-denomination note, reconciling dollars with pounds sterling at the then-standard four-dollar rate, reflects the genuine monetary confusion of the pre-Confederation period, when colonial commerce ran simultaneously on American, British, and local currency conventions.
Perkins, Bacon & Co. produced the plates in London using their steel-engraving siderographic process, the same technology that secured their contracts for postage stamps across the British Empire. The "184x" dating indicates a note completed by hand at issue, with the final digit left open at the press stage.