What's the longest National Bank name?

gsalex

In the process of transcribing the Smithsonian's NBN proofs, I came across the longest bank name I'd ever seen: The Oklahoma Stockyards National Bank of Oklahoma City.

Are there any longer ones out there?

Tookybandit

The auction description says this one is the longest.



Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-Operative National Bank of Cleveland



HA Link

cinch

The Aquidneck National Exchange Bank and Savings Company of Newport is long, but a few characters short of the Brotherhood.

ProofArtworkonCircs

I think Aquidneck wins for small size notes.

Tookybandit

Great bank name, I have not seen that one before. "Aquidneck" wild!

techwriter

A little history about the Aquidneck bank. I had never heard of it either so thought I'd check it out and see what was lying about.

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Aquidneck Bank Link

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One more link that's quite interesting

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Aquidneck Bank Link2

STLNATS

That's a very nice RI site tech.

ProofArtworkonCircs

Now to complete the story, we need Rhode Island Hospital Nation Bank information.
There was an original connection to the hospital and a final connection to the Aquidneck bank.

STLNATS

Originally posted by: ProofArtworkonCircs

Now to complete the story, we need Rhode Island Hospital Nation Bank information.

There was an original connection to the hospital and a final connection to the Aquidneck bank.

It's already there in the great link provided by tech:



http://www.ricurrency.com/bank...island-hospital-trust/

ProofArtworkonCircs

STLNATS,
Thanks for the link. It was very interesting. I still don't see Tech's link to that bank.


EDIT: Found it. It certainly was not an obvious link.

johnny9434

Originally posted by: Tookybandit
The auction description says this one is the longest.

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-Operative National Bank of Cleveland

HA Link

cool and its a mouthful to say as well.

beryl

The Locomotive Engineers get an extra point for a 5 digit charter number and another 0.5 point for the region letter.

Tookybandit

Wow, the president really likes crossing that "T"!!!

cinch

Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association of San Francisco is long as well.







Here's a large-size Aquidneck:



http://currency.ha.com/common/...31022&Lot_No=20261



By the way, here is our discussion of this same topic from a few years back. According to MEC2, Rye National Bank is the shortest. I'm not sure if we're counting spaces and state names in these.

gsalex

Cinch, imho, you can't count the spaces or the state (unless it's part of the bank's name), but you can count the city name -- if it's also attached. So I would argue that it has to include "of" [city name]. Bank of America does not, whereas the Aquidneck note does.

I checked the Smithsonian's large-size proofs for the B of A, Charter 13044. But the bank went by a shorter name then. The currency gets smaller, the name gets longer -- go figure!