1 Dollar The Merchants and Planters Bank

Danforth, Wright & Co. was one of the premier security printers of the antebellum South's banknote trade, supplying engraved plates to dozens of state-chartered institutions that lacked any practical means of printing their own currency. The Merchants and Planters Bank of Savannah was a mid-tier commercial institution serving Georgia's cotton economy — not one of the dominant Savannah banks, which makes surviving examples of its notes less common than those from larger regional issuers.

Georgia's free banking framework of this period permitted a proliferation of chartered banks whose notes circulated at varying discounts depending on perceived solvency. By 1861, Confederate requisitions and the Union blockade of Savannah's port had effectively ended normal commercial banking in the city.