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| 正面描述 | The obverse carries a central vignette of three standing indigenous figures flanking a seated female portrait, set against a rural landscape background; to the left and right are oval portrait vignettes of two distinguished gentlemen in intaglio engraving. The bold letterpress legend CITY BANK and ONE DOLLAR dominates the centre, with denomination numerals rendered in lathe-work medallions at each upper corner. The lower border inscription reads INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT — PROVINCE OF CANADA, with handwritten place and date details for Montreal and a manuscript serial number below the promise text. |
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| 背面描述 | The reverse is printed in a single colour on aged cotton paper and displays the large word ONE in bold block letters at centre, surrounded by a circular guilloche underprint. The design is intentionally plain, relying on the lathe-work geometric pattern and the large counter numeral as the primary anti-counterfeiting elements. |
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City Bank was one of dozens of state-chartered institutions flooding antebellum America with competing paper currencies, and by 1857 the system was visibly straining. The Panic of 1857 — triggered in part by the collapse of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company in August of that year — caused widespread bank suspensions across the northeastern United States, and notes from smaller chartered banks became essentially unredeemable almost overnight.
The American Bank Note Company had only formally consolidated under that name in 1858, meaning this note was almost certainly produced by one of its predecessor firms — likely Danforth, Wright & Co. or a closely affiliated house — using the ABNC imprint retroactively assigned in catalog records.