Pre-Civil War Banknotes - Alabama, Ohio & Carolina

Updated September 4, 2026

Lot number135
Estimate150.00 - 180.00 USD
CategoryCoins & Currency
AuctionChicagoland Antiques, Jewelry & Collectibles Auction 09/15
DateSeptember 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM CDT
Auction houseEsquis Auctions
LocationWheeling, Illinois

Three 19th-century American obsolete currency notes dating from the decades preceding the Civil War. Includes a $10 note from The Central Bank of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama, dating from the 1850s and featuring an agricultural cotton-field scene with a portrait of George Washington; a $5 Franklin Silk Company note from Franklin, Portage County, Ohio, dating to approximately 1836-1838 and richly engraved with allegorical figures and Benjamin Franklin; and a $5 Farmers & Exchange Bank of Charleston, South Carolina note, dating from the 1850s, with a prominent agricultural vignette depicting oxen, a loaded wagon and workers in a cotton field, flanked by engraved portrait medallions. All Circulated.

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