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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 480576, member: 11668"]You want to be careful with the term "Treasury Note"; it appears on several different unrelated issues. The earliest Legal Tender Notes were labelled Treasury Notes, but so were the even earlier interest-bearing issues, and the much later Coin Notes of 1890-91. As a result of all of these multiple appearances of the term, it's probably best not to list "Treasury Note" as a currency type at all; put each of these individual issues into the type where it really belongs.</p><p><br /></p><p>("Coin Note" is a term that collectors seem to have invented for the 1890-91 issues, precisely in order to avoid the ambiguity of calling them "Treasury Notes". But that's not really a strike against it, since "Demand Note" is the same way--neither of these designations was ever actually printed on a note....)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 480576, member: 11668"]You want to be careful with the term "Treasury Note"; it appears on several different unrelated issues. The earliest Legal Tender Notes were labelled Treasury Notes, but so were the even earlier interest-bearing issues, and the much later Coin Notes of 1890-91. As a result of all of these multiple appearances of the term, it's probably best not to list "Treasury Note" as a currency type at all; put each of these individual issues into the type where it really belongs. ("Coin Note" is a term that collectors seem to have invented for the 1890-91 issues, precisely in order to avoid the ambiguity of calling them "Treasury Notes". But that's not really a strike against it, since "Demand Note" is the same way--neither of these designations was ever actually printed on a note....)[/QUOTE]
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