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| Emittent | Eastern Bank of Alabama |
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| Jahr | 1858 |
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| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Form | Rectangular |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | A central vignette of a steam locomotive in motion is flanked by large numeral 20 in each upper corner. At the lower left, a vignette of Lady Justice is shown holding scales and a sword, while a Bald Eagle occupies the lower right. The note bears printed text including the bank name, place of issue, and the imprint of the American Bank Note Company. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is unprinted, leaving the paper plain. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Eastern Bank of Alabama was chartered in Eufaula, a river town on the Chattahoochee that served as a cotton-shipping hub for the surrounding plantation economy. By 1858, Alabama had more than two dozen note-issuing banks, many of them thinly capitalized and operating on optimistic reserve ratios that would collapse within a few years. The Eastern Bank was among the more solvent of the state's antebellum institutions, but it did not survive the Civil War — Confederate monetary disruption and the postwar repudiation of Southern bank obligations rendered all such notes worthless by the mid-1860s.
The American Bank Note Company imprint places this note among the better-engraved issues of the period. ABNC had consolidated several competing engraving firms in 1858, the very year of this issue.