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2 Dollars Bank of Columbus - Georgia
| Issuer | Bank of Columbus, Georgia |
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| Year | 1858 |
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| Size | 177 × 75 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of aged cotton paper with no design, text, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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| Protection description | Gold silk fibers woven into the paper in the form of the numeral 2 at both the left and right margins, with additional parallel gold fiber lines running horizontally through the centre of the note. |
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The Bank of Columbus was chartered in 1834 to serve the commercial needs of one of Georgia's fastest-growing cotton trading towns, situated at the fall line of the Chattahoochee River. By the late 1850s, Columbus had become a significant textile and mercantile hub, and the bank's notes circulated heavily in the interstate cotton trade across the Alabama-Georgia border.
Bald, Cousland & Co. was among the more technically accomplished American security printers of the antebellum period, later absorbed into the American Bank Note Company in 1858 — meaning this note was printed in the final months of the firm's independent operation.