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500 Dollars Bank of St. Thomas
| Issuer | Bank of St. Thomas |
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| Year | 1837 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black on white paper. Central vignette of four allegorical female figures seated upon a globe, flanked by standing allegorical figures at left and right. Large denominational counters reading '500' appear at each corner, with the bank title and promise-to-pay text arranged across the face in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is unprinted plain paper, with the obverse design visible in ghost impression through the sheet. |
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The Bank of St. Thomas operated in the Danish West Indies during a period when the free port of Charlotte Amalie was one of the busiest entrepôt trading hubs in the Atlantic world. A $500 denomination in 1837 was a substantial instrument — not retail currency, but something passing between merchants, factors, and ship captains settling commodity accounts.
The New England Bank Note Company was among the more active early American security printers before the consolidation that eventually produced the American Bank Note Company in 1858. Their work for colonial and foreign issuers during this decade is relatively well documented, though surviving examples of high-denomination Caribbean notes from the period are genuinely rare.