Ridgewood, New Jersey. $5 1882 Brown Back. Fr. 477. The First NB. Charter #5205. PMG About Uncirculated 50. Serial Number 1.Here is a Northern Jersey brown back in good company. Four other 1882 brown backs are listed in the census for The First National Bank of Ridgewood, NJ. One is in The American Numismatic Association museum. One is held by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York. And the other two first appeared on the collector market as part of the mysterious and heralded Richard Saffin sale of 1982. And despite all that, the note we are offering is easily the best, as it is the serial number one example. While the market for New Jersey national banknotes has ebbed and flowed over the past 15 years, a serial #1 $5 brown back never goes out of style. And if you need a reason to buy on spec, it never hurts having the best numismatic item from a town on the top 15 list of highest income earners in the country. Superlatives and comparisons aside, this is a special banknote making its first appearance to the collector community. As you would expect for a serial #1 example, the signatures are picture perfect and the margins are picture perfect. PMG comments Minor Rust, Stained.
