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| 表面の説明 | The upper register carries the bank title 'THE MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK / STATE OF GEORGIA' in bold serif lettering within a scrollwork banner. A central intaglio vignette illustrates a rural agricultural scene with figures, horse-drawn machinery, and a locomotive, reflecting the mercantile and planting economy of antebellum Georgia. Denomination counters appear in each corner — an ornate '1' at upper left and a microprint lathe-work 'ONE' medallion at upper right, with smaller oval counters at the lower corners — while the promise text 'Will Pay ONE DOLLAR to bearer on demand / SAVANNAH' and the printer's imprint of Danforth, Wright & Co. appear in the lower register. |
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| 表面の銘文 | THE MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK STATE OF GEORGIA Will Pay ONE DOLLAR to bearer on demand SAVANNAH 18__ Cashier Prest. Danforth, Wright & Co. Philadel. & New York. |
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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.