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1 Dollar Western Exchange Fire and Marine Insurance Co.
| Uitgever | Western Exchange Fire & Marine Insurance Co. |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1856 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central vignette of Native Americans gazing at a passing locomotive, evoking the westward expansion of the mid-nineteenth century. Numeral counters occupy the upper left and upper right corners, with a portrait medallion at the lower left and a seated allegorical figure at the lower right. The note is typeset and engraved in the prevailing obsolete currency style of the 1850s Territorial period. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain paper reverse bearing a large red overprint of the word ONE in bold serif letterpress capitals, printed in mirror orientation toward the lower centre of the note. The field is otherwise unprinted, and two cancellation punch-holes are visible along the right edge. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Insurance companies issuing currency was a legitimate, if legally ambiguous, practice in pre-Civil War America, particularly in frontier territories where chartered banks were scarce or outright prohibited. Nebraska Territory in 1856 had no state banking law whatsoever — the legislature hadn't gotten around to it — which created a vacuum that entrepreneurial firms like Western Exchange filled by circulating their own obligations.
Omaha City was barely two years old when this note was printed there, platted only in 1854 following the Kansas-Nebraska Act. A locally printed obligation from a non-bank insurer in a territorial town of a few hundred people is about as early as Nebraska paper gets.