Friedberg 831. 1918 $50 Federal Reserve Bank Note. St. Louis. PMG Choice Uncirculated 64. This is the key to the entire large size Federal Reserve Bank Note series. The vividly printed plate impression features the portrait of Ulysses S. Grant at left. The Federal Reserve Bank title and denomination are boldly spelled out at center. The engraved signatures of Treasury officials Teehee and Burke are near top center while bank officers Attebery and Wells are near bottom center. Bold blue overprint inks are displayed on this example which bears serial number H753A. The well vignetted green printed back displays an allegorical representation of the Panama Canal. This is the finest confirmed example of this key type note, a must-have in any advanced large size type collection and a true trophy note to any Federal Reserve Note specialist.The $50 denomination of the Series of 1918, with the city and bank on the face, was issued just in one location, St. Louis, and in only one signature combination. This type is a classic rarity, with an original distribution of only 4,000 pieces. Today only 53 examples are known to survive. This is the finest PMG graded example and the finest third-party graded example that we can confirm. In addition to the St. Louis notes, plates were made for Atlanta and 40,000 notes were printed (but never issued), and for Boston, for which there is no record of any being printed. <em>From Currency Auctions of Americas sale of January 1998, lot 1806. </em>