Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.020
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- circa 1755
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "7/6 7/6 / Crown Point Province of... o. Crown Point / This Bill of Seven Shillings Six Pen...nish mill'd Dollar / carrying ye Interest of one p...ye Treasury of the / Province of New Hampshir...Portsmouth April / the third 1755 By Order of the... / 7/6 7/6 / Crown Point Crown Point." printed; "Committee" printed vertically right; signatures bottom; bird, leafy branch in beak bottom right; "PRO ARIS FOCIS" printed tree trunk in emblem, two branches flank sides; decorative border.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.5 W-5.4 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Bird, Trees
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