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John Sherman: “Not one dollar of the notes issued by national banks has been lost to any person through the failure of a bank.”

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Not one dollar of the notes issued by national banks has been lost to any person through the failure of a bank.
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John Sherman
Ohio

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Sherman claims that no national bank notes have been lost due to bank failures, highlighting their reliability.

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