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Auction: 16015 - World Banknotes
Lot: 299

The Province of Canada, $1, St John, New Brunswick, Ottawa, 1 October 1866, red serial number 44762, black and white, value in green guilloche low centre, Samuel de Champlain low left, Jacques Cartier low right, green vertical text 'PAYABLE AT TORONTO' at left and right, arms flanked by sailor and farmer top centre, blue 'ST JOHN' overprint top centre, manuscript signature low left, printed signature of T.D.Harrington low right, reverse green, value and bank title
(Pick 1c, Charlton PC-2c), only one record of this type being sold at auction worldwide in the last several decades, almost fine and an excessively rare branch of issue

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