When Joe Beam picks up the phone Monday morning, for the first time in 30 years he won’t answer with the words “Mercantile bank.”

The sun set Friday on one of Baltimore’s oldest financial institutions, and when the sun rises Monday, Mercantile banks will bear the letters PNC. But Beam, branch manager at Mercantile’s Timonium branch, said he and his staff are excited about the change.

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