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1 Dollar Harrisburg Bank - Pennsylvania
| Issuer | Harrisburg Bank |
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| Year | 1854 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Three vignettes across the face: at left, a woman harvesting wheat above a stylized Pennsylvania State seal; at center, a mason chiseling stone; at right, a reclining female figure against a shield above a vignette of the first Pennsylvania capitol building. The bank name arcs across the upper center in bold letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA HARRISBURG BANK B Will pay ONE DOLLAR on demand to bearer as directed by the ACT of Assembly of the 4th of May 1841. RE-ISSUE _______________Clerk Jany. 1. 1851. |
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Harrisburg Bank was chartered by Pennsylvania in 1814 and operated through the turbulent free banking decades that followed, surviving periodic suspensions of specie payment that plagued most Pennsylvania institutions. By 1854 the bank was well-established, but Pennsylvania's fractured regulatory environment meant that notes from even reputable chartered banks traded at discounts outside their immediate region — merchants in Philadelphia routinely consulted weekly "bank note reporter" publications to price out-of-town paper.
No known plate errors or major varieties have been documented for this specific issue, and the note predates the 1857 financial panic that forced another round of statewide specie suspension.