Portland, Maine. Casco Bank. ND (18xx). $5. Extremely Fine. Proof.，(ME-435 G52). Toppan, Carpenter & Co., Philada, New Yk. & Boston. India paper mounted on new card. Top center, Landing of the Pilgrims. Top left and bottom right, teenage boy and girl. The Casco Bank was incorporated on February 18, 1824, with an authorized capital of $100,000. It acquitted its affairs with success, punctuated with a few economic wiggles and problems with counterfeits, and in 1854 increased its capital to $500,000, later to $600,000. In 1865 it was discontinued, and its business was taken up by the new Casco National Bank of Portland. Some minor corner repairs and a slight closed tear at top left are seen.
