2 Dollars Franklin Bank

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Legenda del dritto	FRANKLIN BANK The President Directors & Company of the FRANKLIN BANK promise to pay JM P or bearer on demand TWO DOLLARS BOSTON FRANKLIN BANK Two Dollars Two Dollars
Descrizione del rovescio	The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting plain unadorned paper with no vignettes, lettering, or decorative elements, consistent with early nineteenth-century American obsolete banknote practice.
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Commenti	The Franklin Bank of Boston was chartered in 1825 and operated during a period when Massachusetts bank charters were relatively easy to obtain and correspondingly easy to abuse. By the early 1830s, the Boston banking scene was crowded with institutions of wildly varying soundness, and the Franklin Bank itself was not among the most robust — it failed in 1833, just two years after this note's issue date, leaving holders scrambling during a period when specie redemption was already contentious across New England. J. Drake was an active Boston-area engraver and plate maker working in the ornamental bank note trade before the major security printers consolidated the industry later in the decade.