Post Your Obsolete Currency

I like this thread and would love to see more notes posted, so let's give it a bump. Here's one from beautiful Ypsilanti, Michigan (where I went to school). This one is of interest for the portraits of Washington and Franklin. In 1847, a decade after this note was issued, the banknote company recycled these engravings for the first two postage stamps that the U.S. Post Office put out.

 

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First obsolete currency. An 1853 Farmers and Exchange $5. Kinda interesting due to the slaves on the note. Also the back was eventually destroyed by Union troops during the Civil War.