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50 Dollars City of New Orleans - Municipality No. One
| Emissor | City of New Orleans, Municipality No. 1 |
|---|---|
| Ano | 1837 |
| Tipo | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Valor | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Moeda | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Composição | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Dimensões | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Formato | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Impressora | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Designer(s) | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Gravador(es) | John V. Childs |
| Em circulação até | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Referência(s) | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Descrição do anverso | Printed in brown and light brown on plain paper, the obverse presents three principal vignettes in engraved intaglio style: at left, an allegorical figure of Navigation; at center, a detailed architectural vignette of the Saint Louis Hotel in New Orleans; and at right, a figure of the Goddess Athena. The numeral 50 appears below the Navigation allegory and above the Athena figure. The text body, arranged across the full width of the note, details the terms of the municipal bond obligation dated 30th October 1837, with spaces left for manuscript completion of the bearer's name and treasurer's and mayor's signatures. |
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| Legenda do anverso | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Descrição do reverso | Printed in light blue on a tan paper ground, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate lathe-work guilloche design composed of five large overlapping circular rosettes with intricate engine-turned floral and geometric infill, flanked by four rectangular guilloche panels at the corners. A large latent-style monogram or abbreviated text reading "N.O." is worked into the central guilloche field. Additional fine lathe-work lettering appears along the top and bottom margins, readable as "NEW ORLEANS" in mirror image due to the note's orientation. |
| Legenda do reverso | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Assinatura(s) | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Tipo de proteção | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Descrição da proteção | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
| Variantes | Inicie sessão para ver os detalhes |
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New Orleans operated under a bizarre tripartite municipal structure from 1836 to 1852, when the city was formally divided into three semi-autonomous municipalities — each with its own council, budget, and critically, its own borrowing authority. Municipality No. 1 covered the old French Quarter and was dominated by the Creole establishment, which resisted sharing fiscal resources with the Anglo-American Second Municipality upriver. These notes were essentially municipal bonds in small denominations, issued to manage day-to-day obligations during a period when the city's finances were under severe strain from speculative land and cotton lending.
1837 is not an incidental date. The Panic of 1837 broke in May of that year, suspending specie payments across the country and forcing municipalities and quasi-banking institutions alike to paper over liquidity gaps with whatever instruments they could legally issue. John V. Childs was an active New Orleans engraver of the period, working locally rather than through the major Northern bank-note firms.