1882年5美元 PMG VF 30。Medicine Lodge, Kansas. $5 1882 Brown Back. Fr. 467. The First NB. Charter #3253. PMG Very Fine 30. Serial Number 1.；We have the privilege tonight of offering for the first time to the collecting community this incredible serial number 1 Five Dollar Brown Back from the First National Bank of Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
This note represents a remarkable feat of survival as just $285 of the banks total issue of $40,060 in National Currency remained outstanding in 1910. This note is the only known surviving example of National Currency issued by the bank. <br />The town of Medicine Lodge is located in Barber County. Before the area was settled by whites it was occupied by the Kiowa people who believed the nearby Medicine Lodge River, or A-yadalda Pa as they called it, was sacred due to the high content of healing Epsom salts in the river. The Kiowa constructed a tabernacle a few miles south of the present day town for the celebration of their annual sun dance in 1866. The area was also the site of the Medicine Lodge Treaties signed between the United States and a number of different Plains Indians tribes including the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Arapaho and Cheyenne. <br />A group of white settlers led by John Hutchinson founded the town of Medicine Lodge on a 400 acre site north of the confluence of Elm Creek and Medicine Lodge River in February 1873. The sleepy rural Kansas town grew slowly, aided by a bustling local livestock trade.
The First National Bank received its charter there on September 24, 1884. <br />The bank issued only Five Dollar Brown Backs in sheets of four notes each. A total of 2003 sheets were issued by the bank before it was liquidated on March 1, 1894. The note offered here this evening is the Plate C note from the first sheet of notes ever issued by the bank. Medicine Lodge had one other note issuing national bank, the Citizens National Bank of Medicine Lodge, which operated from late 1886 until early 1891. That bank remains unreported with just $175 outstanding in 1910.<br />A number of light folds are seen, likely from storage rather than circulation. The printed inks retain much of their original boldness, while the hand signed bank officers signatures are neatly inked and very legible. The grading service mentions "Minor Restoration" which is limited to the top two corners on the banknote and is virtually undetected by the naked eye. This is a fantastic National Currency rarity with an excellent location name. And the always coveted serial number 1 adds to the appeal. This is certainly an item that will receive tremendous attention and a charter that will likely remain unique to this note for as long as we can foresee.
