Louisville, Kentucky. $5 1882 Date Back. Friedberg 537. The NB. Charter #5312. PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ. Offered is a very beautiful 1882 Date Back $5, with great centering and nice wide margins all around both sides. The paper is bright and fresh, this seemingly a requirement for D. Brent Pogue when he assembled these notes. Exceptional Paper Quality has been noted on the PMG holder. All ink tones are bold, with the blue charter numbers and region letters being particularly dark and nicely embossed into the paper. The bankers signatures are rubber-stamped on this note, one of the ways the process was made more efficient for larger banks with more circulating notes than could be managed through the autograph process.The 1882 Date Backs are a scarcer issue, used only for a span of eight years beginning in 1908. Mostly the basic face design was carried over from the Brown Backs, but the backs featured a completely new design with a broad open field, the namesake dates at the center and obligations and vignettes around. PMG has graded just two $5 Date Backs finer. The National Bank of Kentucky of Louisville was chartered in April 1900 and issued an eye popping $36.8 million in Nationals into circulation before going into receivership in November 1930. This bank has long provided customers with high grade $5 Date Backs, with more than 80 recorded examples in the census. <em>From Currency Auctions of Americas sale of January 1992, lot 1437; our sale of March 2018, lot 11036. </em>
