1 Dollar Bank of the Valley in Virginia

The Bank of the Valley in Virginia was chartered in 1817 and operated primarily out of Winchester, serving the Shenandoah Valley agricultural economy. Danforth, Underwood & Co. — active in New York through the late 1830s and early 1840s before merging into the American Bank Note Company lineage — produced work for dozens of state-chartered banks during this period, and their plates were frequently shared or adapted across multiple institutions.

The Haxby G4 designation confirms this as a genuine-issue type rather than a remainder or altered note, a distinction that matters for this bank: altered notes from defunct Southern institutions were rampant in circulation by the 1840s, and Valley notes were not immune to counterfeiters working the Winchester-to-Baltimore trade routes.