2 Dollars

The Bank of Clifton was a short-lived New Jersey institution, and like many small American state-chartered banks of the late antebellum period, it operated in an environment of radical monetary fragmentation — before the National Banking Acts of 1863–64 imposed federal order, thousands of individual banks issued their own currency with wildly varying backing and reputations. The New York Bank Note Company, one of the more prolific security printers of the era, supplied notes to dozens of such institutions simultaneously, often from shared or lightly modified plate designs.

Clifton's notes circulated at a discount outside the immediate region, if they circulated at all. The Civil War effectively ended most state bank note issues within a few years of this note's printing.