Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.021
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- 1756
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "20/sO-T / 5/s 5/s / Crown Point Province of New-Hampshire (No_ ) Crown Point / This Bill of Five Shillings Equal to one third of a Spanish mill'd Dollar carrying / the Interest of one p Cent p. Ann, Shall be receiv'd into the Treasury of the Province of / New - Hampshire in all publick Payments Portsmouth April the third / 1755 By Order of the General Assembly / June, 1 1756 / 5/s 5/s / Crown Point Crown Point" printed; "Committee" printed vertically lower right; two birds sitting in tree right; "PRO ARIS FOCIS" printed on tree in emblem; three horizontal lines center; decorative border.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.3 W-5.5 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Bird, Trees
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