provincial bank-note

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of the currency notes issued by several of the provinces in colonial times.

Quotations

1829

The money in circulation [in Canada] is chiefly what is called dollar bills, being provincial bank-notes. . . .

1946

Nova Scotians in the 18th century had their struggle with their "provincial notes," another form of unredeemable paper.