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| Emittent | Traders Bank of Virginia |
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| Jahr | 1860-1865 |
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| Druckerei | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Green intaglio-printed note with a central oval portrait vignette of a well-dressed gentleman, flanked by two lateral scenes: at left, a slave picking cotton in a field, and at right, a young woman operating a spinning wheel beside an industrial building with a smokestack. Denomination numerals "20" appear in ornate octagonal counters at each upper corner, with "TWENTY DOLLARS" in vertical guilloche panels along both side borders. At the bottom centre, a small spread eagle vignette is positioned between the signature lines for Cashier and President, with the imprint of the American Bank Note Company below. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Reverse is blank, without any printed design or text. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Traders Bank of Virginia was chartered in Richmond and operated through the Civil War period, which means notes issued toward the end of this date range circulated in increasingly desperate conditions — Confederate inflation was eroding confidence in all Virginia bank paper by 1863, and many state-chartered banks struggled to maintain specie backing as the war dragged on.
The American Bank Note Company's New York origin is worth pausing on. By the time secession was underway, Southern banks holding pre-war stocks of ABNC-printed notes were simply using what they had — no new engraving was being done in New York for Confederate-state institutions after 1861.