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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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| Value | 1 Dollar (1 USD) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green and carries a large lathe-work guilloche panel at centre with the word ONE in white relief, flanked on each side by paired ornamental flourishes incorporating asterisk devices; the surrounding field is left plain white. |
| Reverse lettering | ONE |
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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.