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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1772639, member: 12789&quot;]<img src="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/obsoletes/meridennationalbank11873800.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>More a post-bellum note than a feminine vignette pursuit, this note is quite fascinating - it was issued by Meriden National Bank Charter # 1382 of Meriden Connecticut. What makes this note particularly fascinating is that at the same time the bank was issuing $1 bills from the first charter series under the auspices of the National Banking Act of 1864! This note issue, especially bearing the name of the national bank, was likely in contravention of that act and it&#039;s prohibition against and taxation against private non-national bank issues of currency. At any rate this is now a very rare note with few appearances in public auctions in the last decade, usually when they are found they are remainders or specimens and not issued notes. Meriden National Bank was chartered in 1865 and issued large sized nationals of which only three reported $1 from the original series are known. The bank continued issuing national bank notes through the 1929 small sized issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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