![]() With free banking, “any potential banker who could raise a certain minimum of capital could start a bank wherever he chose.” The range of notes classified in the Reporter reflects the number of entrepreneurs that stepped into that breach. Celebrating 50 Years of Bank Note Reporter - Numismatic News Celebrating 50 Years of Bank Note Reporter Mark Hotz The cover of Bank Note Reporter from October 1999 Congratulations to Bank Note Reporter on its Golden Jubilee of service to the currency collecting community. This fraud-alert text will report that something fishy might be going on. Thompson’s Reporter was one of a class of newspapers that existed solely to catalog and assess types of currency during the period between the decline of the Second Bank of the United States, in 1836, and the emergence of a national currency after the Civil War. As historian Hugh Rockoff writes, “free banking” was one of a few alternative approaches to banking tried during this two-decade period. Monitor your ANB accounts at any time Transfer money Receive Account Messages. Note also the coin chart supplements listed in. ![]() Four pages from the publication Thompson’s Bank Note Reporter, issued in February 1846, give a sense of the wide range of currencies available in the United States during the so-called free banking era. (The full 16-page issue, which covers currency from 27 states, D.C., and Canada, is available on the Internet Archive, having been digitized by Washington University Libraries.) Bank Note Reporter : Active Interest Media : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Bank Note Reporter by Active Interest Media Publication date Topics Numismatics Collection newmannumismaticrestricted wustl americana Language English Vol. Each issue of Bank Note Reporter includes market values, calendar listings, news briefs, price guides, historical articles on paper money and why certain notes. Thompsons Bank Note Reporter listed trusted bank note issuers, as well as discount rates for suspect notes.
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