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5 Cents Sutton and Stewart
| Issuer | Sutton & Stewart, Bankers |
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| Year | 1862 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple ink on pale paper, the obverse carries a letterpress vignette at left of two female figures — an older woman and a younger girl — holding a flower basket, rendered in fine line engraving. To the right, the numeral "5" appears within a decorative scalloped guilloche roundel. The issuer's name "Sutton & Stewart" in large script and the denomination "FIVE CENTS" in bold display type occupy the centre, with the serial number in manuscript at upper left and a small dog's head vignette at lower centre flanking the manuscript signature of W. Weamer. |
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| Obverse lettering | No. 33 Sutton & Stewart 5 BANKERS PAY TO THE BEARER, FIVE CENTS When Presented in Sums of One or More Dollars. Plumville, Indiana Co., Pa., December 30, 1862 W. Weamer "Messenger" Print. Indiana, Pa. |
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Sutton & Stewart operated as private bankers in what was still a chaotic patchwork of American currency — 1862 placed this note squarely in the opening phase of the Civil War, before the National Banking Acts of 1863–64 forced most private issuers out of the fractional note business. Small-denomination scrip like this filled a genuine void: coin hoarding had gutted everyday commerce the moment war broke out, and even five-cent pieces vanished from circulation almost overnight.
Messenger Print was a local job shop, not a specialist security printer. That matters — these notes carried no sophisticated anti-counterfeiting features beyond whatever the local press could manage.