At left is `Franklin and Electricity.` At right is `America Seizing the Lightning` with the allegorical figure on the back of an eagle.
Reverse description
Bank Charter number at center in dark blue ink over brown ink background and text. The State Seal of the US State the bank in located in the oval to the left. An American Eagle is in the oval to the right.
Signature(s)
Blanche Kelso Bruce, James Gilfillan, Albert U. Wyman, Conrad N. Jordan, William Starke Rosecrans, James W. Hyatt, James Nelson Huston, Enos H. Nebeker, Daniel Nash Morgan, James Fount Tillman, Ellis Henry Roberts, Judson Whitlocke Lyons, Charles H. Trea
Protection type
Protection description
Obverse lettering
NATIONAL CURRENCY.
THIS NOTE ISSECURED BY BONDS OF
THE UNITED STATES
DEPOSITED
WITH THE U.S TREASURER AT WASHINGTON
(charter location)(charter name) Feb. 18th 1885
Will pay TEN DOLLARS to Bearer
on demand.
Reverse lettering
THIS NOTE is RECEIVABLE at PAR in all
parts of the UNITED STATES and in payment of all TAXES and EXCISES
and all other DUES to the UNITED STATES except DUTIES on IMPORTS
and ALSO for all SHARES and other DEBTS and DEMANDS owing by the
UNITED STATES to INDIVIDUALS CORPORATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS within the
UNITED STATES except INTEREST on PUBLIC DEBT
Every person making or engraving, or aiding to make or engrave,
passing or attempting to pass any imitation or alteration of this
Note, and every person having in possession a plate or impression
made in imitation of it; or any paper made in imitation of that on
which this Note is printed is by act of Congress approved June 3rd
1864 guilty of Felony and subject to a fine not exceeding One
Thousand Dollars or imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years or
both.
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