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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1696890, member: 12789&quot;]First paper acquisition in some months - too busy with other hobbies and stuff.&nbsp; This one has been on the short list for my collection, now the only Canadian on the list is the Standard Bank $20 from 1919:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/canada/images/canadadominion101925dtl1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The evocative imagery of Britannia and her lion is priceless and is proprietary to the bank and not the printer.&nbsp; I just love the colour contrasts of this note with the deep green versus black.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/canada/images/canadadominion101925.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dominion Bank was one of the smaller banking concerns in Toronto at that time, even with their last note issues in 1938 they didn&#039;t issue a lot of paper money.&nbsp; But they were a continually successful institution and merged with Bank of Toronto in 1955 to form Toronto Dominion Bank which it is still known as today.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/canada/images/canadadominion101925dtl2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the more unique subjects for a banknote - how many notes do you see with beavers on them?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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