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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;techwriter, post: 5164730, member: 75477&quot;]And our Canadian neighbors have their &quot;battleship&quot; note:</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Heritage archives ( I no longer have mine )[ATTACH=full]1210353[/ATTACH] </p><p>From the Bank of Canada Museum we find:</p><p><a href="https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2018/11/money-of-the-first-world-war/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2018/11/money-of-the-first-world-war/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2018/11/money-of-the-first-world-war/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>HMS Bellerophon was a “dreadnought” class battleship. The biggest of their era, such ships rarely saw battle service and were scrapped soon after the war. $10, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada, 1913 (1963.14.108)</p><p>Canadian money changed little during the First World War (WW1). On the eve of battle in 1913, The Royal Bank of Canada issued a patriotic $10 note picturing the Royal Navy battleship <i>HMS Bellerophon</i>. This note promoted Britain’s might in the naval arms race that had gripped Germany and the United Kingdom in the years preceding WWI.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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