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5 Dollars = 25 Shillings
| Emittent | Agricultural Bank, Toronto |
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| Jahr | 1834 |
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| Währung | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Black letterpress and intaglio engraved note on plain paper. At centre, a classical allegorical female figure seated amid a sheaf of wheat and agricultural implements serves as the primary vignette, flanked by two circular guilloche medallions each bearing the numeral '5'. To the left, a small landscape vignette with livestock, and to the right, a further rural scene; the word 'FIVE' appears vertically at both outer margins. The heading 'AGRICULTURAL BANK' spans the upper portion, with 'UPPER CANADA' below, and the body text reads 'TWENTY FIVE Shillings Currency' with the place and date 'TORONTO 16 Oct 1834' inscribed in the lower register. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain aged cotton paper surface with no vignettes, text, or decorative elements, consistent with Canadian private bank note practice of the early 1830s. |
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The Agricultural Bank of Toronto was a short-lived private institution that collapsed in 1837, making any surviving paper from its brief operation genuinely uncommon. Upper Canadian private banking in this period operated largely without formal charter — the Agricultural Bank was one of several "free banks" that issued notes on the strength of reputation and specie reserves alone, with no legislative backing to compel redemption when runs occurred.
The dual denomination — 5 Dollars expressed simultaneously as 25 Shillings — reflects the monetary confusion of pre-Confederation Upper Canada, where American dollars, British sterling, and Halifax currency circulated concurrently and tradespeople needed notes that could be used across that arithmetic divide.
Printed locally rather than by one of the established British or American security printers, which accounts for the comparatively modest engraving quality documented across the series.