Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — The First Greenback. [ARTICLE]

The First Greenback.

The first $5 bill issued by the Government, known as greenback money, turned up not long since in a deposit of the Third National Bank of Naskville, being letter A, No. 1, dated Washington, March 10, 1863. J. E. Goodwin, the teller, called attention to the fact, and the note was sent to the Treasury Department for identification as the original $5 issued. The bank was answered that it was, and the officers and directors immediately decided to present it to the Tennessee Historical Society. E. D. Hicks, the Secretary of the Commercial Insurance Company, had the note put in an elegant frame, with glass on both sides, showing the back as well as the face of the note, and the bill, thus secure from wind and weather, will be S resented to the Historical Society.— TQAhville ('f'enft.) American.

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