5 Dollars The Farmer's Joint Stock Bank, Second Issue

Features

Issuer	United Province of Canada (Canadian provinces)
Issuing bank	Farmer's Joint Stock Bank
Queen	Victoria (1841-1867)
Type	Local banknotes
Year	1849
Value	5 Dollars
Currency	Pound (1841-1858)
Composition	Paper
Size	180 × 77 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 219127
References	P# S1769 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

In the top left and right corner the value "5". An illustration of standing Britannia and Justice in the lower left corner and Minerva standing by seated Prosperity in the lower right corner. In the top center, a portrait of Queen Victoria supported by a Lion on her left and an unicorn on her right. At the bottom center, a small crown on swords.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - 5 - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE
FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - 5 - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE - FIVE
AUTHORIZED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT
No.
UPPER - CANADA
THE FARMER'S JOINT STOCK BANK -
ing Company, will pay the bearer on demand
FIVE DOLLARS at their Office in Toronto,
for Value Received
Toronto Feb: 1st 1849.
FIVE
Manager - Pres.
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York

Reverse

Blank side only one red overprint.

Printer

Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson, New York City, United States (1847-1858)

Comments

→ The "Farmers' Joint Stock Banking Company" has issued banknotes between 1835 and 1849.
→ Signatures : William Brown Phipps (Manager) & J.W. Sherwood (President)
→ Printed by : Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson - New York

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1849												Above date, "Toronto" is handwritten on a printed line

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