Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 1961.102
- Creator:
- Hall and Sellers
Printer - Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- 1776
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "SIX DOLLARS. / PHILADELPHIA: / PRINTED BY HALL and / SELLERS 1776." printed; center image either feather or leaf; small decorative border around center image; large decorative border around edge. Reverse: "No. SIX DOLLARS / this Bill entitles the / Bearer to receive / SIX SPANISH MILLED / DOLLARS or the / Value thereof in GOLD / or SILVER, according to / a Resolution of CON / GRESS, passed at Phi / ladelphia February 17, / 1776. / SIX DOLLARS" printed; image of pyramid and palm tress with "PERSEVERANDO" printed above in circle on left side; "SIX DOLLARS / The United Colonies / SIX DOLLARS" printed on top and bottom borders; "SIX DOLLARS / Continental Currency / SIX DOLLARS" printed vertically on left and right borders; signature of J. Williams bottom right.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.7 W-2.9 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Eric P. Newman
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Pyramids, Palm trees
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