Proof sheet for $10-10-10-20 of the Lincoln National Bank of Washington, DC, 1909
date: label: date made
content: 1885
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content: 1896
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content: 1893
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content: 1891
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content: 1872
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content: 1920
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content: 1899
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content: 1890
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content: 1909
notes: label: Description
content: National bank note proof of the Lincoln National Bank of Washington, DC, Charter 4247. $10-10-10-20, 1909. The $10 note shows a portrait on the left of William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States, who was shot at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo and died September 14, 1901. The $20 note shows a portrait of Hugh McCulloch who was Comptroller of the Currency during the Civil War and later served as Secretary of the Treasury. These notes were from the Series of 1902. The Financial Panic of 1907 prompted Congress to pass the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908. This emergency law permitted banks issuing national bank notes to substitute “or other securities” for United States Bonds deposited with the Treasurer to back up the national bank notes between 1908 and 1915. It was intended to increase the supply of circulating money during that period. The phrase “or other securities” appears on the face to reflect this change. The Lincoln National Bank was chartered in 1909 on the centennial of Lincoln’s birth. Seventeen large size notes and 53 small size notes after 1929 are known among collectors for this bank.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NNC.297219.00546
label: accession number
content: 297219
label: catalog number
content: NU*297219.00546
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Proof sheet
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.2 cm x 20.5 cm; 13 7/16 in x 8 1/16 in