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10 Dollars National Bank Note, 'Brown Back'
| Issuer | United States National Banks |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio vignette titled 'Franklin and Electricity' portrays Benjamin Franklin in a classical composition. At right, the allegorical vignette 'America Seizing the Lightning' presents a female figure astride an eagle. The note bears the issuing bank's charter name, charter location, and obligation text in letterpress, with decorative guilloche work framing the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | NATIONAL CURRENCY. THIS NOTE IS SECURED 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. |
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| 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. 10 10 10 10 |
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