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3 Dollars - Marine Bank of Chicago Replica
| Issuer | American Bank Note Company |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | State of Illinois The Marine Bank of Chicago will pay THREE DOLLARS on demand of the bearer CHICAGO Jan 1st 1864 SECURED BY PUBLIC STOCKS, DEPOSITED WITH THE STATE TREASURER |
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| Reverse lettering | This certifies that the Banknote Intaglio printing on the face of this document was printed in 1991 by the American Bank Note Company. Attested to by: Stanley Kreitman President of American Bank Note Company |
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The American Bank Note Company issued a series of facsimile notes in 1991 drawing on its own archival plate holdings — a commercially motivated project, but one with genuine documentary value. ABNCo had engraved currency and security documents for American banks throughout the nineteenth century and retained many of the original dies and records long after those institutions had collapsed or been absorbed. The Marine Bank of Chicago is among the more historically pointed choices: the bank failed in 1861 when its president, John B. Lyon, absconded with its assets.
These replicas were not legal tender and carried appropriate overprinting to that effect. The 1991 series was among ABNCo's last major commercial projects before the company's financial difficulties culminated in its 1999 bankruptcy.