This listing features a Very Low Serial # (0000108) 1937 $1000 Bank of Canada issued note featuring Sir Wilfred Laurier in GEM UNC66 EPQ Condition as graded by numismatic industry giant PMG.  A fabulous opportunity for those seeking own a special note from this important Bank of Canada issue. The 29th edition book price for a non low number note is $30,000 in GEM65, this GEM UNC66 fetches a strong premium over GEM66 book price and the low serial# 0000108 is a nice sweetener on top of that.

 

Osborne resigned as the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada the very next year after the 1937 issue commenced. Osborne was on loan to the Bank of Canada from the Bank of England since 1934 until it was hoped that a qualified Canadian (Donald Gordon in 1938, who point in fact was born in Scotland and didn't come to Canada until he was 12) could be placed in the Deputy Governor position for the newly formed Bank of Canada. Osborne was well respected having been a Secretary of the Bank of England and headed their Statistics Office. L.P. Saint-Amour from the Banque Canadienne Nationale served under Osborne as Assistant Deputy Governor.

The note pictured below IS the actual note under consideration.