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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MSL, post: 7811596, member: 86933&quot;][USER=101226]@Bradley Trotter[/USER] - a terrific post. I share your interest in researching&nbsp; the banks that issued National Currency.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can&#039;t resist reposting my Pensacola note as the First National Bank of Pensacola must have been a competitor of the American National Bank. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342162[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342163[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed before the American National Bank was located in the Opera House the FNB of Pensacola occupied the space probably as the Opera House and the FNB were both owned a by timber entrepeneur named Daniel Sullivan. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342169[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After the FNB left the space the American National bank moved in while the FNB relocated not far away.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342171[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure which of the two banks was better or safer but American National had a great calendar:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342172[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most interesting to me is what happened to the Opera house which at one time housed each of the 2 banks. From Pensapedia wiki:</p><p><br /></p><p>In <a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/1902" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/1902" rel="nofollow">1902</a> then-owner <a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/John_M._Coe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/John_M._Coe" rel="nofollow">John M. Coe</a> created the &quot;Pensacola Advertising Company,&quot; a small poster business to promote the opera house. He took a business partner, <a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Charles_W._Lamar,_Sr.&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Charles_W._Lamar,_Sr.&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Charles W. Lamar, Sr.</a>, in <a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/1905" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/1905" rel="nofollow">1905</a>. When the two men dissolved their business relationship in <a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/1908" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/1908" rel="nofollow">1908</a>, the poster company went to Lamar and was renamed <a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Lamar_Advertising" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Lamar_Advertising" rel="nofollow">Lamar Advertising</a>. According to Lamar company lore, &quot;a coin toss was used to divide their assets,&quot; and Lamar &quot;lost.&quot;<a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Pensacola_Opera_House#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Pensacola_Opera_House#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> Of course, the opera house was destroyed eight years later, while Lamar Advertising went on to become a billion-dollar multinational.</p><p><br /></p><p>Images from:</p><p><a href="https://hometowncurrency.org/pensacola/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://hometowncurrency.org/pensacola/" rel="nofollow">https://hometowncurrency.org/pensacola/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Pensacola_Opera_House" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Pensacola_Opera_House" rel="nofollow">https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Pensacola_Opera_House</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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