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10 Dollars
| Issuer | St. Stephens Bank, St. Stephen |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green and black intaglio on white cotton paper. At center, a large vignette portrays a mariner or sea captain standing at a ship's railing, with rigging visible behind him, flanked by two large green guilloche-patterned X numerals reading TEN DOLLARS. A smaller vignette at lower left shows a conical haystack or monument amid foliage, while the lower right carries a heraldic emblem. The bank title ST. STEPHENS BANK arcs across the upper portion in bold lettering, with The President and Directors & Co. inscribed above, and a repeating TEN DOLLARS denomination border running along the top edge. |
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St. Stephen, New Brunswick was a small border town whose economic life was deeply entangled with Calais, Maine directly across the St. Croix River. Local banks on both sides routinely accepted each other's paper at par — an informal arrangement that persisted for decades and made notes like this one genuinely cross-border instruments in daily use, not merely Canadian currency.
The American Bank Note Company had consolidated from several predecessor firms only in 1858, and this note came early in its history as a unified engraver. ABNC's New York production for Canadian provincial issuers was common before Confederation forced standardization through the Dominion currency system.