5 Dollars Augusta Insurance and Banking Co.

Augusta Insurance and Banking Company was a Georgia-chartered institution that, like many Southern banks, placed its printing orders with the American Bank Note Company in New York well into the secession period — a practical irony that accelerated sharply after Fort Sumter, when such arrangements became impossible almost overnight. Notes dated 1860 sit at the very edge of that window.

Georgia state law at the time permitted insurance companies to conduct banking operations under a combined charter, which is why this issuer's name reads as it does — not an error or merger artifact.