Fr. 537. Louisville, Kentucky. 1882 $5 Date Back. The National Bank of Kentucky of Louisville. Chart

Fr. 537. Louisville, Kentucky. 1882 $5 Date Back. The National Bank of Kentucky of Louisville. Charter #5312. PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.，Offered is a very beautiful 1882 Date Back $5, with great centering and nice wide margins all around both sides. The paper is bright and fresh, this seemingly a requirement for the collector who assembled these notes. Exceptional Paper Quality has been noted on the PMG holder. All ink tones are bold, with the blue charter numbers and region letters being particularly dark and nicely embossed into the paper. The bankers signatures are rubber-stamped on this note, one of the ways the process was made more efficient for larger banks with more circulating notes than could be managed through the autograph process. <p><p>The 1882 Date Backs are a scarcer issue, used only for a span of eight years beginning in 1908. Mostly the basic face design was carried over from the Brown Backs, but the backs featured a completely new design with a broad open field, the namesake dates at the center and obligations and vignettes around. <p><p>The population of notes graded by PMG for this Friedberg variety is given below, but even considering <em>all </em>1882 Date Back notes of <em>any denomination or variety</em>, this is still one of the very best examples in their records for the entire issue. Only three 1882 Date Backs from $5 through $100 have been graded finer than this note by PMG, none by more than a single grade. This is the perfect type note for the finest of collections; finding something better would potentially require a long wait. <p>，From the A.J. Vanderbilt Collection. Earlier from Currency Auctions of America, November 1990, lot 1437.，