Elizabethtown, Kentucky. $10 1882 Value Back. Friedberg 579. The Hardin NB. Charter #6028. PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ. Deep embossing is featured on this exceptionally well printed and very well preserved 1882 $10 Value Back from Kentucky. Plentiful margins frame the sharply inked plate impressions on both the face and the back. The importance of electricity was illustrated in the vignettes <em>Franklin and Electricity</em> at left (depicting the founding fathers famous kite experiment) and <em>America Seizing the Lightning</em> at right. The green printed back design features the denomination spelled out at center, hence the "Value Back" nickname these notes are known by. To the left is a portrait of Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden, while a mechanic is shown at right.The First-Hardin National Bank was chartered initially as the Hardin National Bank in November of 1901. It adopted its second title, that seen on this note, mid-way through their usage of Value Backs. The bank issued just over $2 million in both large and small size through 1935. This example is tied for finest graded example of the type by PMG who has added "& Embossing" to the end of their EPQ qualifier on the back of the holder. <em>From the Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection; Louis E. Eliasberg, Jr., by descent; our (Stacks) sale of October 2001, lot 107; Heritage/Currency Auctions of Americas sale of September 2002, lot 3118. </em>
