1850s $5 Nemaha Valley Bank Brownville, NE VF-20 PMG (NE10G12a)

Currency Highlights:

• Housed in an archival quality currency holder by PMG.
• Certified Very Fine by PMG.
• Five dollar denomination.
• Face: Vignette of a seated "Liberty" with the first five presidents in a "V" (Roman Numeral), with portraits of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster on surrounding sides.
• Back: Left Blank Intentionally.
• Cataloged as NE10G12a.

This note features the first five Presidents in a stunning "V" formation alongside Liberty, Clay, and Webster, a rare and beautifully engraved piece of territorial Nebraska history. Add to your cart today!

This $5 note from the Nemaha Valley Bank is a genuine artifact of Nebraska's territorial banking era, complete with the scarce red "V" overprints and the original signatures of president Thomas L. McKoy and cashier Alexander Hallam. Chartered in 1856 with half the capital required of other banks, the Nemaha Valley Bank lasted barely a year before collapsing in the Panic of 1857, its officers fleeing and its notes trading at a 50% discount before the charter was declared forfeited. Brownville itself, Nebraska's oldest river town, was the territorial epicenter of commerce, and this note circulated at the heart of it. Examples from this scarce territorial issuer seldom reach the market in any grade, let alone in a holder.
Scarce territorial notes with this much backstory, add a piece of Nebraska's founding era to your collection today.