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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Merchants Bank of Canada, Montreal |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by the bold letterpress title MERCHANTS BANK OF CANADA across the top, beneath the DOMINION OF CANADA legend, with a central pastoral vignette of figures working along a riverside with a boat and wooded shoreline in fine intaglio engraving. Two oval portrait vignettes flank the central scene — a gentleman with a moustache at left and a distinguished elder statesman at right — each set within intricate guilloche borders. The denomination FIVE DOLLARS and the numeral 5 appear at the corners, with the date MONTREAL, 3RD JANUARY, 1917 and the inscription CHARTERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT printed in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green, with a highly ornate guilloche underprint filling the entire field, divided into three panels separated by elaborate lathe-work borders. The left and right panels each contain a large stylized numeral 5 within a foliate cartouche, while the central panel bears the bank's heraldic coat of arms within a circular medallion surrounded by intricate engine-turned geometric patterns. The bank name THE MERCHANTS BANK OF CANADA is inscribed along the lower margin, with the numeral 5 repeated at all four corners. |
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| Variants | P#S1167(1) - 03.01.1917 P#S1167(2) - 03.01.1917 |
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