Commercial Bank of Wilmington five-dollar note, 1856; period alteration

• Main Author: Commercial Bank of Wilmington.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1856
• Subjects: Sailing ships; Whaling; Whales; Harpoons; Sailors; Hats; Danforth; Wright & Co.; North Carolina; Bank Notes; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/numismatics,525

Five-dollar New Jersey note altered to look like an issue from the Commercial Bank of Wilmington issued on December 1, 1856; credit to engraving and printing firm Danforth, Wright and Company of Philadelphia and New York along bottom edge; two-color ink on face with two black “5” at opposite corners...