1929 Type 1 $5 American NB of Lincoln, IL VF CH#3613

Currency Highlights:

• These small size National Currency notes were issued beginning in early 1929.
• Housed in an archival quality currency sleeve.
• Note is in Very Fine condition.
• Face: bears a portrait of President Lincoln on the front.
• Back: Features an engraving of the White House on the back.
• CH#3613, The American National Bank of Lincoln, IL.

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Charter number 3613, this institution traces its origins to 1886 when it was originally organized as the German American National Bank, serving the tight knit community of Lincoln, Illinois through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As the United States entered World War I and anti-German sentiment swept the nation, the bank made the deeply patriotic and entirely understandable decision in 1918 to shed its German identity and adopt the proudly American name under which this note was ultimately printed. That singular moment of reinvention ties this note directly to one of the most consequential and emotionally charged periods in American history, adding a layer of historical narrative that goes far beyond the currency itself. Lincoln, Illinois holds its own unique distinction in American history as the only city named after Abraham Lincoln before he became president, with Lincoln himself reportedly christening the town with watermelon juice in 1853.