KONOWAL'S TWENTIES Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 18, May 2, 2004, Article 9
KONOWAL'S TWENTIES
[Your editor is slipping - the following note arrived this week,
but I've lost or misplaced the original and didn't record the
name of the author. My apologies.]"Concerning "Konowal's 40 dollar fortune:" Could his "two
American $20 bills" have been Canadian? Check this with
others more knowledgeable, but I don't believe that in 1913
any official Canadian bills of the $20 denomination had been
issued. However, there were bills in circulation of that
denomination issued by chartered banks, and according to
the Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Bank Notes
(I have the 2nd edition, 1989), most but not all were
redeemable. The circulation of chartered bank notes
continued into the 20th century in Canada because that
country did not tax the bank notes as the United States did
in 1866. This possibility occurred to me because I think of
Canada and Mexico, as well as the United States, as
"American" (remember that discussion). Just a thought."- 2004-05-02
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