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Original $5 National Bank Note

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Set Details
Note Description: $5 Original National Bank Notes
Grade: VF 30
Country: US
Note Number: 394a
Seal Type: Red with rays, red S/N, W/out Ch #
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Vignettes:		 Chittenden
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Certification #: 1991115-004  
Owner: ddr70
Sets Competing: ddr70's Large NBN Type Set  Score: 2233
ddr70's Original Series Type  Score: 2233
ddr70s smattering of 100 Greatest notes  Score: 2233
Date Added: 6/29/2021
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

Danville, PA The First NB Ch. # 325 PMG 30 $5 Original Fr. 394a Radar SN 212/461676 RED pp C PMG 1991115-004 dtd. April 2d. 1864. This note features the FEB 25th, 1863 Act approved date, bottom center as well as the 1863 Variety 1 Counterfeit statement with two dots beneath 25th. on the back. It has a Variety 2 face (feathers in Indian princess's headdress; hooked shaped top branch by 5 protector) and Variety A back with Columbus wearing black pantaloons with definitive vertical white stripes. Back lower right just beneath vignette there are only 3 flourishes--missing 4th small flourish. The bank issued notes from Original Series to 1929 small size. However, the earliest notes are very rare, and this $5 Original Series is the only one from the bank reported in Track & Price. Although the margins are traditionally close for the type in some spots, this is still a very vivid, well printed, and colorful note with modest circulation. Excellent penned signatures of W.(William) A.M. Grier, Cashier and Sam'l Yorks, Jr., President. Mike Coltrane purchased it privately at the 2017 IPMS show. From The Mike Coltrane Collection.

A bank history page with links to bankers' biographies is available at: https://banknotehistory.spmc.org/wiki/First_National_Bank,_Danville,_PA_(Charter_325)

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