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<p>[QUOTE="lettow, post: 892523, member: 6986"]Great topic. Here is a group of US Government checks with portraits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Government Printing Office. John DeFrees held the office of Public Printer under Lincoln and Hayes.</p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/GPO.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Commissioner of the Freedmans Savings and Trust Company. The Freedmans bank was established after the Civil War as a financial institution for freed slaves. Mismanagement and bad investments led to its failing in the 1870s. </p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/NewYork.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Comptroller of the Currency. This check was for a liquidating distribution from a failed National Bank in Pennsylvania.</p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/Comptroller1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Treasury Checks. These two checks were written the same day. Their serial numbers are 179 apart. I snagged them both from Ebay about three years apart. </p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/Cash1902.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/UST1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lettow, post: 892523, member: 6986"]Great topic. Here is a group of US Government checks with portraits. Government Printing Office. John DeFrees held the office of Public Printer under Lincoln and Hayes. [IMG]http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/GPO.jpg[/IMG] Commissioner of the Freedmans Savings and Trust Company. The Freedmans bank was established after the Civil War as a financial institution for freed slaves. Mismanagement and bad investments led to its failing in the 1870s. [IMG]http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/NewYork.jpg[/IMG] Comptroller of the Currency. This check was for a liquidating distribution from a failed National Bank in Pennsylvania. [IMG]http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/Comptroller1.jpg[/IMG] Treasury Checks. These two checks were written the same day. Their serial numbers are 179 apart. I snagged them both from Ebay about three years apart. [IMG]http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/Cash1902.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/UST1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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