10 Dollars Bank of Weston - Virginia

The Bank of Weston operated out of Lewis County in what was then western Virginia — the same region that would break from Richmond and enter the Union as a separate state in 1863. Notes from this institution therefore straddle a political rupture: issued under Virginia law, they became the paper of a county that voted overwhelmingly for separation. Whether any of this series remained in active local use after West Virginia statehood is genuinely unclear, since the new state government moved quickly to regularize its banking arrangements.

The American Bank Note Company produced the plates during its first decade after the 1858 merger that consolidated several competing New York security printers under one roof.