
List of numbered American Bank Note Company specimen in collection
I have compiled a list of the red control numbers typically stamped on the reverse or on the stubs of American Bank Note Company (ABNC) specimens. These numbers signify that the archive piece was officially registered in the company's vaults— as part of a limited-copy archival set. The numbers were assigned in strict chronological order based on the processing date within the archives, rather than the official issue date printed on the security.
Initially, plain serial numbers were utilized, reaching nearly 100,000 by the early 1920s. Around 1923, the ABNC introduced the 'S' prefix (signifying 'Special' orders), which ran as a separate chronological sequence. The prefix 'F' was designated for foreign securities, while 'B' and 'N' were used to identify production by the specialized Franklin-Lee Division (but not always - some of their specimen have numbers without prefix). In the mid-20th century, this was replaced by a modernized three-part coding system that denotes the security type, a sequential order number, and concludes with the two-digit production year.
Incidentally - when several variants were issued with the same design (eg different nominal values) they all got the same archive number.
- 5648 W. J. Mc Cahan Sugar Refining Company in or after 1892
- 25722 Tuinucú Sugar Company 1.7.1907
- 27641 Cuban-American Sugar Company 1.4.1908
- 29300 American Beet Sugar Company 25.5.1909 (stamped)
- 30755 Czarnikow-Rionda Company 1909
- 34922 The Francisco Sugar Company 1.7.1909
- 38934 Santa Cecilia Sugar Company 1.2.1905
- 42949 Manati Sugar Company 3.9.1912
- 43555 The Southern Sugar Company
- 43726 Almada Sugar Corporation
- 51698 Cuban-American Sugar Company
- 51842 Manati Sugar Company 1.5.1915
- 52970 The Cupey Sugar Company 1.7.1915
- 55064 Palma Sugar Company 1.9.1916
- 56430 The Alto Cedro Sugar Company 1.7.1916
- 59350 Sugar Planters' Corporation 1917 (assumed)
- 61353 Tacajo Sugar Corporation 1.11.1916
- 68205 Tacajo Sugar Corporation 1.2.1919
- 71726 Punta Alegre Sugar Company 1915 (assumed)
- 71745 West India Sugar Finance Corporation 14.6.1919
- 73268 West India Sugar Finance Corporation
- 73268 West India Sugar Finance Corporation
- 74849 Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation 1.1.1920
- 75119 West India Sugar Finance Corporation 14.6.1919
- 78614 Santa Cecilia Sugar Corporation 1920 (assumed)
- 80453 Cupey Sugar Company 1920 (assumed)
- 80183 Utah-Idaho Sugar Company 1.7.1920
- 80183 Utah-Idaho Sugar Company 1.7.1920
- 84345 Cuban-American Sugar Company 15.3.1921
- 90890 American Sugar Refining Company 2.1.1922
- 91309 Santa Cecilia Sugar Corporation 1917 (assumed)
- 93074 Godchaux Sugars
- 93642 The Francisco Sugar Company 15.5.1922
- 93642 The Francisco Sugar Company 1.5.1922
- 93429 Manati Sugar Company 1.4.1922
- 94298 Punta Alegre Sugar Company 1.7.1922
- 94541 Compañía Azucarera Baraguá 15.7.1922
- 94541 Compañía Azucarera Baraguá 15.7.1922
- 98618 Compañía Azucarera Ermita 1923 (assumed)
- S3170 Compañía Azucarera Salamanca 1923 (assumed)
- S3170 Compañía Azucarera Salamanca 1923 (assumed)
- S5382 Compañía Azucarera Salamanca 1.7.1923
- S7327 North American Sugar Company S.A. 22.8.1923
- S8668 Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation
- S11950 Cespedes Sugar Company 1.9.1924
- S11965 Punta Alegre Sugar Company 1.7.1922
- S13304 Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Company
- S13394 Acadia Sugar Refining Company 1.1.1920
- S20072 Compañía Azucarera Andres Gómez Mena 1925 (assumed)
- S37918 Amsterdam Trading Company 3.11.1927
- S55946 The Southern Sugar Company
- S90966 Vertientes-Camaguey Sugar Company
- S90966Vertientes-Camaguey Sugar Company
- S91140 The National Sugar Refining Company
- S93523 Cuban-American Sugar Company
- B47763 Caribbean Sugar Company 2.8.1926
- F3975 Compañía Azucarera Altamira 1914 (assumed)
- F4435 Compañía Azucarera Pedro Fernandez de Castro
- F5229 Compañía Azucarera Nacional 1916 (assumed)
- F5305 Central Cunagua 1.7.1917
- F5532 Compañía Azucarera Elia 16.12.1915
- F7003 Compañía Azucarera Pedro Fernandez de Castro
- F10517 New Gómez Mena Sugar Company 1938
- N5202 New Niquero Sugar Company 1.1.1922
- 300-3156-68 Central Aguirre Sugar Company 1968
- 2-4456-103-72 American Crystal Sugar Company 1972