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."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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