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1 Dollar Adrian Insurance Company
| Emittent | Adrian Insurance Company |
|---|---|
| Jahr | 1852 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | State of Michigan 1 B THE ADRIAN INSURANCE COMPANY Will pay to the bearer ONE DOLLAR on demand at their Banking House. ADRIAN _____ 18__ 1 _____ Cash.r _____ Pres.t Seal in lower right: ADRIAN INSURANCE CO SEAL CAPITAL $250,000 Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co. New York & Phila. |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain unprinted reverse in aged cream paper, bearing only scattered contemporary manuscript notations in ink at the upper left, with no engraved or typeset design elements. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Adrian Insurance Company was chartered in Adrian, Michigan — a town that, by 1852, was barely two decades old and still establishing the commercial infrastructure that private scrip like this was meant to support. Insurance company notes occupy an odd corner of American obsolete currency: the issuing firms were not banks, had no formal charter to emit currency, and yet circulated paper freely in cash-starved frontier economies where any credible local institution could fill the void left by absent specie.
Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co. were among the most technically accomplished security printers of the antebellum period, responsible for early U.S. federal postage stamps as well as a large share of the obsolete bank note market. Their involvement here is a reminder that production quality had little bearing on an issuer's actual solvency.