Offered by an eBay seller, here is a First National Bank of Roanoke, Virginia $10 bank note
, which was printed in 1902 (Virginia National Currency Note). The note is signed by Lyons-Roberts.
Ah, the color of money. Old money is so, so pretty, yes?
"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" says Francisco d'Anconia in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce…"
