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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 9593441, member: 5398&quot;]Thank you so much, smallaxe, for the interesting information about the Wisconsin bank currency and potential value. I&#039;ll pass along your information to my sister in case she decides to sell the box at some point. I&#039;ll also print out your post so she can keep it with the currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t realize banks printed their own currency at one time, so I googled it and found this information on mycreditunion.gov: <i>&quot;During this same period (1793 - 1861), approximately 1,600 private banks were permitted to print and circulate their own paper currency under state charters. Eventually, 7,000 varieties of these &quot;state bank notes&quot; were put in circulation, each carrying a different design!&quot;&nbsp; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Before reading your post, I saw the 1958 date [edit: should be 1858 as pointed out by others, thank you] on the currency and assumed it was the year Wisconsin became a state, then decided to look it up and learned it was 1948 [another edit: 1848] (I should have known that since I&#039;m a resident). So 1958 [yet another edit: 1858] must have been the year the note was printed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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