Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg Bank. 1861. $1. PMG Very Fine 20.(PA-170 G22a). Hoober 148-5. Sept. 7, 1861. American Bank Note Company. Large portrait of General Winfield Scott at center. He was the commanding General of the Union Army when this note was issued. Woman and child at left with scroll reading THE UNION AND THE CONSTITUTION. Two women at right. Green border prints and green tinted denomination counters at top left and right. Green 1 protectors with black overlaid One at left and right. PMG notes Minor Repairs but they are extremely subtle. The bank operated for roughly fifty years until receiving its charter in 1864 and it was renamed Harrisburg National Bank, charter #580. We have only sold a single example, and that Fine sold for over $800. An excellent civil war dated Obsolete and very rare. Ex: Schingoethe.
