5 Dollar Bank of Augusta

The Bank of Augusta operated out of Augusta, Georgia, and was one of several antebellum Georgia state-chartered banks that relied on Northern engravers for their note production — Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. being among the most prolific of the era, supplying plates to banks across the country from their New York shop. The arrangement was purely commercial; a Georgia bank's notes could carry the same underlying plate geometry as those of a Massachusetts savings institution.

By the late 1850s, Georgia's banking sector was under increasing political pressure as secession sentiment hardened. Many of these institutions wound down or were absorbed into Confederate monetary structures after 1861, cutting circulation lives short.