Summary spreadsheets for National Bank & National Bank note data and BEP production of large-size type notes
These links will open downloadable EXCEL spreadsheets.
1 – Corporate Summaries all banks – Huntoon 7-2-24
Bank corporate chronologies (1863-1935, all charters 1-14348) — 15,891 entries
Bank titles used on issued notes
Organization dates if available
Charter dates
Opening dates (1901-1909)
Closing dates with fate
Last outstanding taxable circulations
Summary corporate histories
Contact: peterhuntoon@outlook.com
1R – Corporate Summaries revised states – Hansen current
Matt Hansen is updating and reformatting Huntoon’s 7-2-24 spreadsheet with newly acquired data much of it from Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (1941). This is a state-by-state work in progress. If data for your state appears in this spreadsheet, use this version of it. This spreadsheet will supplant #1 when finished.
Contact: matthewghansen@gmail.com
Bank presidents, cashiers, total resources, circulations by year (1863-1935) — 337,619 entries
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National bank notes issued by each bank title (1863-1935) — 81,261 entries
Titles found on issued notes
Series/type/sheet combination/beginning and ending serial numbers
Title change dates:
( ) = formal title change date for new titles submitted by the bankers
[ ] = date for use of a new title. See Table 1, Chapter L06 in the Huntoon-Shiva NBN for the distinction between the official banker-supplied and non-official titles found on the notes for this bank.
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Catalog of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing certified proofs (Series of 1875, 1882,
1902, some Original) in the National Numismatic Collection — 45,231 entries
Smithsonian scan number
Bank
Series
Type
Sheet combination
Plate letters
Treasury signatures
Certification date (1876-1929)
Plate date
Sorting aids
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5 – BEP production of large-size notes by fiscal year
Large size currency sheets delivered during the fiscal years ending June 30 (1863-1929).
Data from the annual reports of the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
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National Bank Note Titles
The official definition of a bank title as used by the Comptroller of the Currency's office was the name of the bank and town but not the state/territory submitted by the bankers at the time of organization or at the time of a title change requested by the bankers.
Great care was taken to list the titles that actually appeared on issued notes in spreadsheets 1, 1R and 3. Some titles differ from the official titles because of (1) minor changes imposed by the Comptroller's clerks to better specific the location of the bank on some earlier large-size notes, (2) clerical errors, or (3), deliberate editing to remove punctuation on some Series of 1929 notes.
The handing of bank titles in these spreadsheets is tricky. Formal title changes submitted by the bankers are denoted by the date of the title change in round brackets ( ) following the title. The tricky part is the identification of unofficial titles. A title changeover involving an unofficial title is denoted by a title change date in square brackets [ ] on the new title. To determine which title is the official, find the changeover on Table 1, Chapter L06 in the Huntoon-Shiva Encyclopedia of U.S. National Bank Notes, via the SPMC home page.
The sources used to obtain official titles were (1) national bank organization reports, (2) certificates of authority to commence business, and (3) List of Active and Closed National Banks (1941) in Record Group 101, National Archives, College Park, MD; and also (4) title change tables in the annual reports of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Sources of data for Spreadsheets
1-Corporate summaries
Louis Van Belkum, primary compiler
Peter Huntoon, Mark Drengson, Matt Hansen, revisions
Organization dates
Organization Reports, National Currency and Bonds Ledgers, plate dates on proofs
Charter dates
Organization reports, Certificates of Authority to Commence Business
Opening dates (1901-1909)
Organization Reports
Closing dates with fate
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports
Last outstanding circulation
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports
Summary corporate histories
Van Belkum, Louis, 1968, National banks of the note issuing period 1863-1935: Hewitt Brothers, Chicago, 401 p.
2-Bank presidents, cashiers, total resources, circulations by year (1863-1935)
Andrew Pollock, primary compiler
Mark Drengson and Peter Huntoon, supplemental compilers.
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports (primary)
Bankers Magazine, various bank directories (secondary)
3-National bank notes issued by bank title (1863-1935)
Louis Van Belkum, primary compiler
Peter Huntoon, exact bank titles and revisions to issuance data
Series/type/sheet combination/beginning and ending serial numbers
National Currency and Bond Ledgers
Title change dates:
Comptroller of the Currency Annual Reports
BEP proofs
Series of 1929 overprinting plate billing ledger
4-Characteristics of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing certified proofs (Series of 1875, 1882, 1902, some Original)
Peter Huntoon, compiler
Smithsonian crowd-sourced project to catalog the BEP proofs
5 – BEP production of large-size notes by fiscal year
Peter Huntoon, compiler
Annual reports of the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
