Description
Book Synopsis Kansas had only a few years in which its bankers and merchants issued the now-obsolete notes that have become such popular--and rare--collector''s items. This heavily illustrated history details Kansas paper bank notes and scrip through 1935. Like the Society of Paper Money Collectors'' state catalogs it provides history and listings of specific notes and comments on their rarity, but it is unique in grouping notes and issuers alphabetically according to the economic period in which the notes were issued. Notes are separated into three major categories: municipal governments, merchants, and banks. Appendices examine modern reproductions of obsolete currency, altered notes and write-in scrip, the printers and engravers who created the physical notes, and more.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Photographic Credits ix
- Preface 1
- How to Use This Book 3
- Introduction: Kansas Banking History 7
- I. Territorial Period, May 30, 1854–January 29, 1861 13
- II. Statehood Period, January 29, 1861-June 1, 1861 65
- III. Civil War Crisis, 1861–1863 69
- IV. Post–Civil War Period, 1866–1879 131
- V. Miscellaneous Scrip Period, 1870–1930s 153
- VI. National Bank Note Period, 1864–1935 207
- Appendices: A. Modern Reproductions 231
- B. Altered Notes 235
- C. Known Written Denomination Scrip 239
- D. Pre-1863 Banks That May Have Issued Scrip 242
- E. Printers and Engravers on Pre-1880 Notes 243
- F. Round Cardboard Tokens 245
- G. Reported Serial Numbers on Rare Notes 247
- H. Notices of Scrip Issues in Newspapers 251
- Bibliography 253
- Index255
