The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo
The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo in New Mexico printed $125,400 dollars worth of national currency. That is a small output. National bank notes from here should be scarce. This national bank opened in 1906 and stopped printing money in 1912, which equals a 7 year printing period. That is obviously a very short period of time. During its life, The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo issued 6 different types and denominations of national currency. We have examples of the types listed below. Your bank note should look similar. Just the bank name will be different. For the record, The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo was located in Otero County. It was assigned charter number 8315.
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The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo in New Mexico printed 450 sheets of $5 1902 territorial red seal national bank notes. Collectors love to buy notes from such a small print run. It doesn’t get much smaller than under 500 sheets printed. 1902 red seals have always been a collector favorite. Territorial bank notes have always been popular. When you combine those two factors the result can be a very valuable bank note. We are of course specifically looking at the five dollar denomination. Most $5 red seals are known to exist from Fairbanks, Alaska, thanks to a hoard discovery in the 1960s. There are also about a dozen $5 territorial red seals known to exist from Oklahoma. The design is exactly like any other third charter bank note. Ben Harrison is on the left hand side of the bill. There is a red four digit charter number and red seal. The charter number is printed around the border of the bill several times.
1902 $5 Red Seal Territorial National Bank Note
The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo printed 460 sheets of $10 1902 territorial red seal national bank notes. Collectors love to buy notes from such a small print run. It doesn’t get much smaller than under 500 sheets printed. This denomination and type was the most prolifically issued territorial note. Some can be quite rare. There is a hierarchy in terms of rarity. Red seals from Hawaii are the absolute rarest. In fact, none from Hawaii are currently known to exist. Ten dollar red seals from Porto Rico are also extremely rare, as are red seals from Alaska. The average collector is most likely to encounter red seals from Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. There were far more territorial banks in Oklahoma during the red seal period than any other state, so notes from Oklahoma are the most common. However, most all red seals should be worth more than $10,000, and sometimes considerably more. William McKinley is pictured on the left hand side of each bill. The number under McKinley is the bank serial number. If that number is #1, then you can expect an additional premium on the value.
1902 $10 Red Seal Territorial National Bank Note
The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo also printed 460 sheets of $20 1902 territorial red seal national bank notes. That of course equals the number of sheets printed for the ten dollar denomination. A total of 259 national banks in the country issued $20 territorial red seals. There are currently only about 30 of them known to exist, and that total includes all national banks. That survival rate is really poor. That means that these notes are rare and valuable. They were usually printed in small quantities and very few new ones are found these days. High grade examples are scarce as are notes printed by banks not located in Oklahoma.
1902 $20 Red Seal Territorial National Bank Note
The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo also printed 1,675 sheets of $5 1902 territorial blue seal national bank notes. A total sheet output in the lows 1,000s is a great sign that you own a very rare bank note. It may or may not come as a shock, but there are only a half dozen five dollar 1902 blue seal territorial notes currently known to exist. That small number is a direct result of small printing numbers. Only nine banks in the entire country even issued the $5 blue seal as a territorial. One in Alaska, two in Hawaii, two in Arizona, and four in New Mexico. Each note has a portrait of Benjamin Harrison on the left hand side of the bill. If you want to know the exact output of total blue seal territorial $5 bills for this bank then you can just take the number of sheets printed and multiply that number by four. Each sheet had four five dollar bills on it. Not sure if yours is a territorial or a state issue? Just look below the bank’s title. Written in a slightly curved text will be the name of the state the bank was in. If the word Ter or Territorial is before the name of the state then you have a territorial. Territorials are of course more valuable than regular issue state notes.
1902 $5 Blue Seal Territorial National Bank Note
The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo also printed 1,198 sheets of $10 1902 territorial blue seal national bank notes. A total sheet output in the lows 1,000s is a great sign that you own a very rare bank note. Common isn’t the right word, but the ten dollar bill is the most “available” denomination of 1902 blue seal territorial notes. There are currently around 30 1902 $10 blue seals known to exist from all territories. You can take the number of sheets printed for this bank, and multiply that by three to get the exact number of $10 notes printed for this type. Each note of course has the portrait of William McKinley on the left hand side. The charter number and overprint are both in blue ink. The number below McKinley is the serial number as it relates to the bank (and it is usually very low). The serial number in the upper right is the treasury serial number which is normally about six digits long. Typically when collectors hear territorial blue seal we think about New Mexico and Arizona. Both of those states printed such notes until each became a state in 1912. However, we also have to remember that all blue seals printed by Hawaii, Alaska, and Porto Rico fit the bill as well since all of their issues were of course issued before statehood.
1902 $10 Blue Seal Territorial National Bank Note
The Citizens National Bank Of Alamogordo also printed 1,198 sheets of $20 1902 territorial blue seal national bank notes. As is the case with all large size twenty dollar national bank notes, the number of sheets printed is the same as the number of individual notes printed. Right now there are about a dozen 1902 $20 territorial blue seals known to exist from all banks in the country. That is not many to go around, but this is still a small hobby. Most collectors who need one probably have one. However, there is still room for these to be very valuable based on their serial number and condition. Just like non-territorials, these also have a picture of Hugh McCulloch on the front of them. These are still good for the face value of $20 today; we definitely don’t recommend spending them though.
1902 $20 Blue Seal Territorial National Bank Note
