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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1583624, member: 12789&quot;][h=3]Kansas ~ City of Leavenworth $5 1871[/h]</p><p><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/obsoletes/usaksleavenworth51871dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>The city of Leavenworth Kansas was the first chartered city in Kansas in 1854. Kansas had a very contentious history early in it&#039;s existence due to the continuing conflict over slavery prior to the Civil War - an episode remembered as &quot;Bloody Kansas&quot; where in fact the events leading to the US Civil War first started seeing actual casualties. After the cessation of the conflict in 1865 Kansas authorities issued currency in payment of debts associated with the conflict. The City of Leavenworth got in on the act also, issuing these lovely notes in 1871. The design is apparently proprietary to this issue being a &quot;Lady in the clouds&quot;.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/obsoletes/usaksleavenworth51871.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Most of the known notes now available to collectors are unsigned remainders that in all likelihood never actually circulated - unfortunately a bit of research of sold notes during the past decade demonstrates that many of them are heavily worn for some reason.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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