Higgins Museum Tour

The notes on display at the Higgins Museum include many unique or rare, and historically interesting issues. These include the number one $1 note from the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, one of the banks robbed by the James brothers gang, and the only known note from the Gopher State community of Sleepy Eye Lake, a Third Charter Red Seal from the First National Bank. Then there is the $5 note from Knob Noster - "Our Hill" in Latin - down in Missouri, one of the more interesting and unusual place names to appear on a National Bank Note.

The Iowa display is replete with rare and unusual offerings. They include the only known surviving $100 First Charter note for Iowa, issued by the Des Moines National Bank, and the rare and unusual Series of 1875 Black Charter $5 note from the First National Bank of Red Oak. There are also unique notes from Dike, Ida Grove, Lineville, Renwick and Richland, along with the only known notes to have survived from the banks in Blanchad, Lansing and Monroe. The museum's holdings also include one of only two known surviving notes from the banks in Belmond, Convith, Hudson and Lisbon. Then, there is the Third Charter, Plain Back uncut sheet of $5 notes from the Marion County National Bank of Knoxville, a unique presentation sheet bearing representative signatures of all the bank's officers.