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| Emittent | Farmers Bank of Bucks County |
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| Jahr | 1841 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The face presents three left-facing portrait busts at the left edge, right edge, and upper-left corner respectively, alongside a right-facing bust at the upper right, with a central pastoral vignette in the upper register portraying a standing female figure flanked by two cows. Letterpress text below identifies the issuing institution as The Farmers Bank of Bucks County, Bristol, Pennsylvania, with a manuscript date of June 18th, 1841, and the promise to pay one dollar to bearer on demand pursuant to the Act of Assembly of the 4th of May 1841. The note carries manuscript cashier and president signatures in ink. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | BRISTOL PA. June 18th 1841 ONE ONE THE FARMERS BANK OF BUCKS COUNTY Will pay ONE DOLLAR to bearer on demand as directed by the ACT of assembly of the 4th May 1841 Cash! Pres! |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Farmers Bank of Bucks County was chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and operated during a period when free banking statutes and wildcat tendencies made Pennsylvania's rural note-issuing institutions objects of genuine public suspicion. This 1841 date places the note squarely in the turbulent aftermath of the Panic of 1837, when specie payments had only recently resumed and public confidence in small-bank paper remained fragile.
Bucks County issuers were not among the more notorious suspension cases, but counterfeiting of Pennsylvania small-denomination rural notes was endemic by the 1840s — detection guides of the period regularly listed Farmers Bank of Bucks County issues among those requiring close scrutiny.