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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 992

MS. Greenville. Ch.S3765. First National Bank of Greenville. $5. 1882 BB. Fr. 470. No.E986842E/6854. Plate A. VF-XF. Excellent margins, and the top margin includes the sheet selvage. Clean and attractive, with solid paper, good color, and pen signatures. Two pinholes to the left of the portrait are the only detractions.

Among National Bank Note enthusiasts, few notes are as exciting as $5 Brown Backs with circus poster layouts for the bank´s title and location. Only found on the issues of a small number of banks, they are thought to be the most attractive layouts of all the interesting designs found on $5
Brown Backs. Two circus poster notes appear in the census for this bank, one in VG and the other in Fine. Accordingly, we feel comfortable asserting that this discovery note is the highest grade circus poster known on this bank, and the only one of the three which is an attractive high grade note. The Fine circus poster on this bank was auctioned as Lot 1147 of Lyn Knight´s Nov. 17, 2006 sale, where it sold for $9,500.00 plus the buyer´s premium.

Sold for
$6,750