Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.014
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- 1766
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "PROVINCE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Portsmouth, 17 / THIRD Exchange for L. Sterling, No. / By Order of the General Assembly. At Thirty Days Sight of this our third p Exchange / (first, second and fourth unpaid) pay unto or Order / Sterling. Value receiv'd into the / Treasury, and charge it without further Advice to Account of said Province. / To John Thomlinson, Esq; / Agent for said Province at London. / Your Humble Servants, / Committee." printed; "July 5th 66" written in ink top; "174:18-" and "(657)" written in ink top; "Mr Barnabas Clarke" written in ink center; "One Hundred + Seventy Four Pound, Eighteen Shilling" written in ink center; Theodore Atkinson, W Sherburne, Meshech Weare's signatures bottom; decorative border top and bottom; thick border left side with writing cut off. Reverse: Barnabas Clarke, Wm Dennie signatures. When held up to light, security detail shown.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.2 W-7.5 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes
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