![Treasury Dept. Ofc. Comptroller of Currency, Macerator for destroying old and mutilated national bank notes after redemption. 1,500,000 destroyed daily. Since the organization of the National Banking System in 1862 over six billion dollars of National Bank notes have been destroyed by this machine, [1914]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTQvMDEvMDEvdHJlYXN1cnktZGVwdC1vZmMtY29tcHRyb2xsZXItb2YtY3VycmVuY3ktbWFjZXJhdG9yLWZvci1kZXN0cm95aW5nLW9sZC1hbmQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/320/243/jpg "Treasury Dept. Ofc. Comptroller of Currency, Macerator for destroying old and mutilated national bank notes after redemption. 1,500,000 destroyed daily. Since the organization of the National Banking System in 1862 over six billion dollars of National Bank notes have been destroyed by this machine, [1914]")
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Treasury Dept. Ofc. Comptroller of Currency, Macerator for destroying old and mutilated national bank notes after redemption. 1,500,000 destroyed daily. Since the organization of the National Banking System in 1862 over six billion dollars of National Bank notes have been destroyed by this machine, [1914]
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01/01/1914
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