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1 Dollar Augusta Insurance and Banking Co. - Georgia
| Issuer | Augusta Insurance and Banking Co. |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | At the left, an intaglio vignette presents a seated female figure with a bucket alongside a male figure on horseback at a watering trough; to the center-right, a separate female portrait bust faces left. The note carries the bank title, denomination, place of issue, and a manuscript date of 23 April 1860, with spaces for the cashier's and president's manuscript signatures below. |
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| Obverse lettering | ON DEMAND, The Augusta Insurance & Banking Co Will pay bearer ONE DOLLAR. AUGUSTA (23 April 1860) Cash.r Pres.t STATE OF GEORGIA |
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Augusta Insurance and Banking Co. was a dual-charter institution — not uncommon in antebellum Georgia, where combining insurance and banking functions under one roof allowed greater capital flexibility than a straight banking charter alone. By 1860, the firm was operating in a credit environment already strained by the financial aftershocks of the Panic of 1857, and notes like this one were circulating alongside a chaotic mix of state bank paper of wildly varying reliability.
The American Bank Note Company had consolidated several competing New York engraving firms into a single operation just two years prior, in 1858. Notes ordered around 1860 came from that newly merged shop, whose die and plate library was enormous — elements were routinely shared across unrelated issuers, which is why Southern state bank notes of this period can look strikingly similar despite coming from different institutions entirely.