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BINGO!

I had a deja vu moment when typing in the serial and the charter into the search when I picked up this "Bingo" note (serial matches charter) a few months ago while doing census work on eBay.

While somewhat common on low charter numbers, these types of notes appear by luck on other charters. This being a high denom example adds a certain cool factor as well.

The Farmers Deposit National Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was a goliath of a bank. Currently 858+ small notes are recorded in the NBNC.

Read more about the bank here:

Charter 685 Bank History

Cashier, Joseph Harry Jones (1875-1961) President, Arthur E. Braun (1876-1976)

Notes from The First National Bank of Fontanelle, Iowa come up sporadically at best. Only a handful of public offerings of large notes have occurred in the last 30 years.

Currently 12 Large and 5 small are reported in the NBNC for this Adair County bank. Open for business on January 1, 1904 until it's liquidation on August 12, 1930 the bank produced 36,112 Large size notes and 2,394 Small size notes of the $5, $10, and $20 denominations.

The city is named for chief Logan Fontanelle of the Omaha tribe, son of the French fur trader Lucien Fontanelle of the American Fur Company and an Omaha tribeswoman

The note features proud pen officer signatures of Cashier, William Arthur Addison (1881-1930) and President, John Fred Baudler (1855-1937)

I picked this note up last weekend at the Des Moines Coin Club Show.

The German-American National Bank of Arlington, Iowa is a unique Iowa bank. It is the ONLY ethnic-titled bank in the state. Iowa had a high German immigrant population (reference: my last name). Up until World War 1 it was not uncommon to have newspapers, church programs, etc. printed in German and for it to be commonly spoken. My grandma, born in Iowa in 1918, did not speak a word of English until she went to school. During the war, Anti-German sentiment was prevalent. Schmidts became Smiths and the alternate German printed literature went away. Ethnic titled banks like this one also dropped "German" from their names. On July 1, 1918 the bank became The American National Bank of Arlington, Iowa.

Only 4 notes are recorded in the NBNC with this first title and of course one is in the Higgins Museum. The survival rate for the first title is low due to the fact that not many notes were issued under it. Only 4,400 $5s 2,640 $10s, and 880 $20s split between 02 Date and Plain Backs passed over the counter.

The sigs have faded, but I can still make out the "H" of Assistant Cashier, Hoyt Ryan Young (1890-1967)