American Bank Note Company stock certificate 1963 (New York)

Oddly uncommon modern ABN stock variety. Vignette of allegorical male and female Greek figures with a background of scrolls and symbols of industry. Issued and cancelled. Circa 1904 when the company changed names.  Measures approximately 10.25 x 8.5 inches.  

American Banknote Corporation (parent to American Bank Note Company), trading as ABCorp, is an American corporation providing contract manufacturing and related services to the authentication, payment, and secure access business sectors. ABCorp’s history, through American Bank Note Company or ABN, dates to 1795 as a secure engraver and printer, and assisting the newly formed First Bank of the United States to design and produce more counterfeit resistant currency. The company has facilities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Formerly known as the American Bank Note Company, the organization was originally a major worldwide engraver of national currency and postage stamps. Robert Scot, the first official engraver of the young U.S. Mint, began the company that would eventually grow into the nation’s premier high security engraving and printing firm, the American Bank Note Company.

Founded in 1795 as Murray, Draper, Fairman & Company (after Scot's three partners), the company prospered as the young United States population expanded and financial institutions blossomed. Its products included superior quality stock and bond certificates, paper currency for the nations thousands of state-chartered banks, postage stamps (from 1879 to 1894), and a wide variety of other engraved and printed items.

On April 29, 1858, following the Panic of 1857, seven of the nation’s most prominent security printers merged to form the American Bank Note Company. The new company made New York City its headquarters. Less than two years later, the remaining handful of independent bank note printers merged to form the National Bank Note Company that we know of today.

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