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Replica - 10 Dollars The Mineral Point Bank
| Issuer | The Mineral Point Bank |
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| Year | 1839 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | THE MINERAL POINT BANK Will pay or Bearer TEN DOLLARS on demand Mineral Point WISCONSIN FACSIMILE Cash Rawdon, Wright & Hatch, New York Pres. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green, composed of three large circular guilloche rosettes arranged horizontally across the centre field, flanked by four smaller scalloped medallions. The central rosette incorporates an interlaced lathe-work pattern with the denomination numeral X at its core. |
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Mineral Point, in what was then Wisconsin Territory, was a lead-mining boomtown when this note was issued. The Mineral Point Bank was one of several wildcat-era institutions operating in the upper Mississippi frontier, where distance from major financial centers made note redemption difficult by design — a feature, not a flaw, for many issuing banks of the period.
Rawdon, Wright & Hatch were among the most prolific security printers of the antebellum period, supplying plates to dozens of state-chartered banks across the country. This replica exists because original circulating notes from frontier Wisconsin territorial banks are genuinely rare survivors.