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1 Dollar Farmers Bank of Bucks County
| Issuer | Farmers Bank of Bucks County |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | 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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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted plain paper, heavily aged and toned, with manuscript endorsements applied in ink and a partial stamped or printed notation visible in the right portion of the note, oriented vertically. |
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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.