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100 Dollars Citizens' Bank of Louisiana, New-Orleans, Bilingual
| Uitgever | Citizens' Bank of Louisiana |
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| Jaar | 1857-1899 |
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| Drukker | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse carries three allegorical vignettes across the upper register: a central bust composition flanked on the left by a vignette of a young female figure surrounded by foliage, and on the right by a portrait vignette of a statesman amid American patriotic symbols. Large numeral counters reading '100' appear at the lower left and right corners, with the bank title arching across the top and denomination text in the centre panel. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 100 THE 100 CITIZENS' BANK OF LOUISIANA C C Will pay to the Bearer One Hundred Dollars HUNDRED NEW ORLEANS _____________________CASH.R ______________________PRES.T PATENTED 30 JUNE 1857 American Bank Note Company N. Orleans |
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The Citizens' Bank of Louisiana was chartered in 1833 as a mortgage bank, its capital secured against sugar and cotton plantations — which meant, in practice, against enslaved people held as collateral. That financial architecture underpinned every note the bank issued. By the time the American Bank Note Company was producing this series, the bank had survived Louisiana's catastrophic 1842 banking crisis, during which it was one of very few New Orleans institutions to avoid outright suspension.
The bilingual French-English format was not decorative. Louisiana's Civil Code and its commercial culture remained substantially Francophone well into the late nineteenth century, and notes printed only in English would have faced real friction in the parishes.