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1 Dollar Bank of New-England at Goodspeed's Landing - Connecticut
| Issuer | Bank of New-England at Goodspeed's Landing |
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| Year | 1853-1865 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the sidewheel steamboat 'City of Hartford' underway past the Gelston House and associated buildings at Goodspeed's Landing, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. A male portrait medallion occupies the left panel and a female portrait medallion the right, with a green ONE denomination underprint applied across the face. The bank title and promise-to-pay text are set in letterpress above and below the vignette, with the issuing location East Haddam and state attribution to Connecticut inscribed in the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 ONE 1 1 BANK OF NEW-ENGLAND AT GOODSPEED'S LANDING Will pay to the bearer on demand ONE DOLLAR ONE East Haddam ____________18___ ONE STATE OF CONNECTICUT_____________________________Pres.t American Bank Note Co. New-York |
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Goodspeed's Landing was little more than a steamboat stop on the Connecticut River in East Haddam — an unlikely home for a chartered bank, but Connecticut's liberal banking laws of the period made such arrangements routine. The Bank of New-England at Goodspeed's Landing operated from 1852 and became mildly notorious for the distance between its charter location and its actual business activity, a gap that regulators increasingly scrutinized through the late 1850s.
The American Bank Note Company imprint places this within ABNCo's early consolidated output, following the 1858 merger of several competing security printers. Haxby G16c denotes a specific plate letter variant within the series.