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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