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2 Dollars Bank of Columbus - Georgia
| Emittent | Bank of Columbus, Georgia |
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| Jahr | 1858 |
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| Material | Cotton paper |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The upper portion carries a bold arched title vignette reading BANK OF COLUMBUS flanked by STATE OF GEORGIA, with ornate counters bearing TWO at upper left and a numeral 2 at upper right, both in intricate lathe-work surrounds. The central lower vignette presents an intaglio-engraved riverside panorama with a side-wheel steamboat navigating the river in the foreground, an arched bridge at right, and industrial buildings with smoking chimneys along the wooded far bank. Handwritten date, cashier, and president signatures appear across the face, with gold silk security fibers forming the numeral 2 visible at left and right margins. |
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| Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale | 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.