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1 Dollar Bank of Charleston
| Issuer | Bank of Charleston |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Uniface note with a central upper vignette of two boys whittling a stick while tending livestock, engraved in the fine intaglio style characteristic of American Bank Note Company work. At lower right, a seated maiden rests amid her harvest bounty. A large red letterpress ONE panel occupies the lower centre, with the bank title, place of issue, and date inscribed across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | American Bank Note Co. N.Y. THE BANK OF CHARLESTON Will pay ONE DOLLAR to bearer on demand CHARLESTON June 1st 1861 VIRGINIA |
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The Bank of Charleston was a South Carolina institution, and this 1861 note carries an awkward origin: printed in New York by the American Bank Note Company just as the political situation between North and South was reaching the point of no return. ABNCo continued fulfilling Southern orders into early 1861, and some shipments were caught mid-transit when hostilities began — a logistical problem that left several Southern banks scrambling for currency.
The Haxby G2a designation places this in the genuine-issue category, distinguishing it from the numerous contemporaneous counterfeits and altered notes that plagued South Carolina banking in the war years.