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.


[Image Heritage Auctions]

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


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