Mertzon

The First National Bank of Mertzon

Mertzon is the county seat of Irion County, 28 miles southwest of San Angelo on US 67 (or 116 miles from Abilene).

This is the First National Bank of Mertzon as it is today at Main and Broadway.

The First National Bank of Mertzon was chartered in 1910 and continued printing to the end of the National Bank period.
The FDIC documents the bank's continuous existence since its inception.

The bank issued 1902 Date Backs and Plain Backs in $10's & $20's plus 1929 Type 1's, also in $10's & $20's.
In 25 years, it released $109,979, and in 1935, $6,000 was in circulation.
There were no notes in the census until now.


[Image Stacks & Bowers]

Stacks and Bowers sold the above note at auction, March 23, 2018 for $15,600.

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