[First Port Arthur Bank, photograph, Date Unknown;(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth79565/m1/1/?q=Port%20Arthur: accessed May 28, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Port Arthur Public Library.]

The First National Bank of Port Arthur was located at the corner of

Austin Ave. & Procter

The First National Bank of Port Arthur opened as charter 5485 on July 7, 1900, and printed currency until the end of the National Bank period. The issue contained 1882 Brown Backs, Date Backs, and Value Backs, followed by 1902 Plain Backs and 1929 Types 1 & 2.

The census lists 114 known notes: two 1882 Brown Backs, two 1882 Value Backs, and nine 1902 Plain Backs, plus 26 1929 Type 1's and 75 Type 2's. The Philpott-Moody Collection owns two 1882 Value Backs and two 1902 Plain Backs.

This Brown Back sold at a Heritage auction, May, 2010, for $3,680.

[Image Heritage Currency Auctions]

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