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National Bank Notes (Original/1875) set

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Reason

High quality, high EV (presented as a set). A complete denomination set of the first series of National Bank Notes. The design features both allegorical and historical vignettes, and engravings reproducing 7 of 8 paintings hanging in the Capitol Rotunda. The motivation for the Treasury Department’s design selection was two-fold: educationally it would circulate images depicting important scenes from American history while at the same time enhancing the security of the note by involving highly complex engravings. There are three $500 notes known (two in government collections, one held privately), and the $1,000 note is unknown in issued form.

Each National Bank Note is signed (the present early examples by hand, but later often by rubber stamp) by the President (or Vice President) and Cashier (or Assistant Cashier) of the bank. The bank officers who signed the notes below include: one mining tycoon, two lawyers (one of which was a State senator, the other a State Supreme Court judge and law school Dean), 3 doctors (one a Civil War colonel, the other survived the Battle of Little Bighorn), and one Civil War general (see the primary article for links).

Original – A 9-note complete denomination type set of first issue National Bank Notes

Articles in which this image appears

Art and engraving on United States banknotes, National Bank Note

FP category for this image

Currency

Creator

American, Continental, and National Bank Note Companies under contract to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The $500 and $1,000 are from the National Numismatic Collection, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution.
Images by Godot13.

Denomination type set of first issue National Bank Notes

• 
  $1 Original Series
  First National Bank
  Lebanon, Indiana
• 
  $2 Series 1875
  First National Bank
  Emporia, Kansas
• 
  $5 Series 1875
  Vineland National Bank
  Vineland, New Jersey
• 
  $10 Series 1875
  First National Bank
  Bismarck, North Dakota

• 
  $20 Series 1875
  First National Bank
  Butte, Montana
• 
  $50 Series 1875
  First National Bank
  Cleveland, Ohio
• 
  $100 Original Series
  Raleigh National Bank
  Raleigh, North Carolina

• 
  $500 Original Series
  Appleton National Bank
  Lowell, Massachusetts
• 
  $1,000 Series 1875 (proof)
  First National Bank
  Salem, Massachusetts

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 23:26, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Beautiful. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 00:41, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
• Support - More beautiful scans. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:07, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
• Support Interesting themes. Brandmeister^talk 08:53, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
• Support — Historically and aesthetically interesting. Sca (talk) 14:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)