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2 Dollars West River Bank - Vermont
| Issuer | West River Bank |
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| Year | 1860 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars (2 USD) |
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| Obverse description | At upper left, a circular numeral "2" medallion; the upper central vignette presents two cherubs, one holding and the other standing upon a Seated Liberty dollar coin dated 1854, with a locomotive and train in the background. The left vignette shows three standing female allegorical figures, while the lower right vignette portrays a woman at a butter churn. A large red letterpress "TWO" overprint spans the central portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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The West River Bank operated out of Jamaica, Vermont — a small hill town with no particular commercial weight, which made it exactly the kind of institution the Suffolk System was designed to discipline. Boston's Suffolk Bank had spent decades pressuring rural New England banks to maintain specie reserves or face note redemption at a discount, and by 1860 the system was fraying, with the Suffolk's authority actively contested by the newly formed Bank of Mutual Redemption.
The dual printer credit here is not unusual for the period — Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson plates were frequently acquired or reused by successor firms, and the New England Bank Note Company incorporated much of that earlier work into its own production runs.