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20 Dollars Bank of New England at Goodspeed's Landing - Connecticut
| Issuer | Bank of New England at Goodspeed's Landing |
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| Year | 1853-1865 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars (20 USD) |
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| Obverse description | At upper left, a scalloped circular counter bears the numeral 20, while at upper right a guilloche medallion carries the Roman numeral XX; a large central vignette at the top of the note presents a riverside panorama of Goodspeed's Landing with the paddlewheel steamer City of Hartford passing in the foreground. The bank title THE BANK OF NEW ENGLAND / AT GOODSPEED'S LANDING arches across the centre in bold letterpress, with the word TWENTY rendered in decorative intaglio script below. An oval portrait of Judge Storrs occupies the lower left, framed within a fine-line engraved border, and a counter panel at lower right repeats the numeral 20 within an ornate guilloche frame. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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Goodspeed's Landing was a small steamboat stop on the Connecticut River in East Haddam — an improbable location for a chartered bank, and that was rather the point. Connecticut's free banking period produced dozens of institutions in rural outposts where regulatory scrutiny was thin and redemption inconvenient for note-holders traveling any distance. The Bank of New England at Goodspeed's Landing was among the more aggressively issued of these, with currency circulating well beyond the community it nominally served.
Danforth, Wright & Co. held New York and Philadelphia operations during this period, a transitional identity between earlier and later incarnations of the American Bank Note Company's constituent firms.