Post A National Note From Your Collection (Small Or Large)

Did someone (Scopru) request Oklahoma?






Small towns in Southern Oklahoma just north of the Red River!

Well done.


Nice pair!

Thanks for the comments. I'll try to find some other toughies in my stash and post them later this week!

Post messed up. I will try again later. :|

I am originally from McKinney. This is the 2nd large size note I've owned from this particular bank and is also one of my favorites. Small notes from this bank are as rare as hen's teeth! I've heard of one but have never seen it.

When I was little (about 65 years ago!) I remember riding in the car with my Mom and Dad and them talking about people that lived in certain houses around McKinney when we passed by them. One story about the banker that died "in THAT house" always stuck with me when we drove by it. The story was the bank examiners we're visiting the bank that morning. The banker left the bank later that morning to go home for lunch and never went back to work that afternoon. The "official" story is he had a heart attack and died. The small town "rumor mill story" was the he had hung himself. (I guess the shock of dangling from the end of a rope just might lead to a heart attack, too.)

Later, when I started collecting Nationals, I studied the history of this bank and discovered it failed around the same time the Banker had died. The bank assets, including a brand new building, were absorbed in to McKinney's other National bank The Collin County National Bank.

I will always believe the rumor mill story just because of what my Mom and Dad had told me.

Nice signatures on that example. Thanks for posting.

Wow, look at that Cashier's signature!

Small notes from Burkburnett & Jacksboro, Texas. Both are small towns in western North Central Texas south of the Red River.

Tens seem to dominate my collection.