Ten dollar bank note

[quito]

Came across this recently, it was my grandfathers who who was born about the time it was issued and lived in the that area.
I am wondering if anyone knows much about this kind of currency.
the reverse side is blank.

 

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[Mackaydon]

Here's some historical perspective on your Bill:
" Wright Tarball, of Watertown, has sent to the his torical muslum a unique and Inter esting relic of the fight for the torn' porary location of the state capitol In 189. It Is In the form of a five-dollar greenback gotten out by the Water- town capitol commission and It reads: FIVE DOLLARS Chalmers Bonded Investment Company for value received will Pay the Bearer FIVE DOLLARS Thirty days after the temporary capital of South Dakota Is located at Watertown. Payable at Watertown. National bank. No. 7005. Chalmers Bonded Investment Com pany, by Wm. Mclntyre, President. The Watertown Capital commit tee printed bales of this stuff in de. nominations of five, ten and twenty dollars, and distributed it over the state in the belief that it would Influence voters who were corruptible. The theory was that a voter would take the cash of other-candidates and then would vote to make this Wafer-town scrip good. It did not work to any observable extent. largely, if not wholly neglected."
Source: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/95223891/ (Click on "OCR")
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[A2coins]

That awesome info I would hold onto it thats a cool piece of History

 

[islamoradamark]

Thats different

 

[quito]

That’s cool.

a person Can about always count on t-net for an answer.

interesting tidbit of history of our states beginning.

thanks for the info.