Mission
The First National Bank of Mission
Mission is the county
seat of Hidalgo County, 68 miles west of Brownsville on IH 69
to Harlingen, then IH 2 west.
The Osborne map of Mission in 1919
shows two banks.
The bank at the top is at Lomita & Guallacan. Today Lomita
is Conway St., and Guallacan became 10th St. before being named
Tom Landry St. Today.
The bank at the bottom is at Lomita and Orange (9th St, before
being Business 83). Today.
The First National Bank of Mission
was chartered number 10090 in October, 1911, and continued printing
currency until the end of the National Bank period.

[The Bankers Magazine, Vol. 83, 1911, p. 384]
In 1983, it merged.
The First National Bank of Mission
printed 1902 Date Backs & Plain Backs and 1929 Types 1 &
2.
There are seventeen notes in the
census: one 1902 Date Back and five Plain Backs plus eight 1929
Type 1's and three Type 2's. The Date Back and one Plain Back
are in the Philpott-Moody Collection.
This Plain Back sold in May, 2010,
at a Heritage Auction for $2,530.

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This one sold in January, 2019,
at a Heritage Auction for $900.

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