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10 Cents Fort Plain Bank
| Issuer | Fort Plain Bank |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Left vignette in intaglio style shows a woman and child carrying bundles of harvested grain or straw. To the upper right, the denomination numeral "10" appears within a lathe-work oval counter. The issuer's name is set in ornate script within a bordered cartouche at top center, with the promise-to-pay text in letterpress below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse, showing only offset ghosting from the obverse impression, with a simple ruled border visible at the edges. |
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Fort Plain Bank operated out of Montgomery County, New York, and like hundreds of similar state-chartered institutions, it issued fractional notes during the Civil War when hoarding of metal coinage became acute almost immediately after the fighting began. By mid-1862, small change had effectively vanished from everyday commerce across the North, and private scrip from local banks filled the gap for months before federal postal currency and fractional currency arrived to formalize the stopgap.
C. Knickerbocker of Albany printed for numerous upstate New York banks during this period — a regional job printer rather than a specialist security note house, which shows in the relatively modest engraving quality across the series.