The Extent of the Market for Early American Bank Notes

<p class="editor-paragraph" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Data provides information on banks issuing notes, banks redeeming notes, the geo-locations of the banks, the miles separating the issuing and redeeming banks, and data on the issuing banks, including capital, total note issues, market discounts on notes in Philadelphia. The unit of analysis is the redeeming bank. The data were collected from state bank reports in Pennsylvania from 1842 and 1848. Additional analysis use data collected from the records of a Connecticut bank note broker. These data include the name of issuing banks, their location, the dollar denomination of notes discounted.</span></p>