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Bernard_Schaaf
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« on: January 06, 2007, 10:19:32 pm »

Gentlemen:     Can  anyone tell me  the significance of the large  23568  on the reverse  of the  Bank
of  British Columbia  $10 note??   It looks  to  me  to  be too large  to  be  a charter  number  and  too  small  to  be  a  ZIP code.    Thank  you.                  Bernard Schaaf
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2007, 11:05:14 pm »

It is the sheet number, repeated from the face of the note where it would occur in normal size numerals, on the 1894 issue.  For a good example of this, look on page 16 of the current edition of Canadian Bank Notes, where face and back of the illustrated 1894 $5 note both are numbered 76058.  
Charter numbers were not used in Canada.  The closest thing to a charter number was the bank's ranking in government published bank returns, which appears as part of the logo on machine-signed notes starting after the enabling legislation of 1913 - - but I digress.

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