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Dominion of Canada, die proof vignette

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:30.00 CAD Estimated At:60.00 - 100.00 CAD
Dominion of Canada, die proof vignette
SOLD
120.00CAD+ buyer's premium (24.00)
This item SOLD at 2019 Oct 04 @ 22:07UTC-4 : AST/EDT

Buyer’s Premiums will be added on all items as per the Terms & Conditions of the sale. Invoices will be emailed out after The Toronto Coin Expo.

Dominion of Canada, die proof vignette, Sir John A. Macdonald, engraved by Canada Bank Note Co. and used on 1886 $2 Essaie (first published in Jan. 1978 CPMS Journal, page 5, and now in National Currency Collection). Similar to portrait on DC-30, 1896 $5,000 Bank Legal. The Macdonald portrait, slightly enlarged, is found on the Bank of Canada 1971 and 1989 $10s. Lot also includes photograph of the frontispiece of vol. 4 of The Scot in British North America by W. J. Rattray, an early use of the vignette.