I had not been able to find a single picture of this on the internet ~ anywhere! I was lucky to find a source online that mentioned that this denomination even existed. Well ~ now it is mine and I have only three more notes to go to complete the set. I included a recent 1 that came my way just as a comparison of size. The $2 is in mid AU condition but not too bad considering the age and times from which it came. Hope you enjoy. The scans are big so you can see the detail. Best Regards ~ Darryl
Thank you! It is how this series of notes in non-fractional form were canceled. Sad but true. I have only been able to find auction activity for a handful of these notes and they all (but one) have been cut like this to cancel them. The one that had not been cut was in really rough shape. So, if you want to collect this series in a higher grade you have to accept that they were canceled in this manner. Adds to the provenance. Thanks again!!!
The $1 and $5 I have been able to locate for sale are canceled in the same way. It will be an interesting set for sure!
I really like the female vignette on the note - that series was used from approximately 1868-1880 or so and usually on smaller denomination fractionals issued by merchants.
Steve, what seems odd to me is that the seal and right SN are off just a tad but the left seems to be spot on. Nice condition for the age and it is a trinary with my numbers. Thank you!!! SM - Thanks you, I have seen the vignette before as you mention on fractionals. It is too bad that the image was so close to the signature. It is a beautiful note and I feel very fortunate that I was able to buy it.
I really like those "evasion" era notes that were issued after the Civil War that were issued in contravention of the prohibition of note issue - ie the National Banking Act and associated 10% taxes on issues. This one was issued not as script as much as it was issued as money, but still could only be used in their company store. Later on the coal companies in that part of the country would only issue what was clearly scrip and not money - of course was only good in the company stores and nowhere else. When I was in high school there was an older employee of our school that told of growing up in one of these communities in Alabama. Sometime I want to do a page specifically on "evasion" post Civil War era notes, they were issued as late as 1896, often by states and communities, but even railroads, coal companies and usually in the South of the USA. But I just did purchase a note from New England dated in 1873.
