Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.064
- Creator:
- Hall and Sellers
- Place of Origin:
- Baltimore, MD
- Date:
- 1777
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "TWO DOLLARS. / Printed by HALL and SEL- / LERS. 1777." printed; thick decorative border; raspberry, two filbert leaf impressions. Reverse: "TWO DOLLARS. No. / THIS Bill entitles the / Bearer to receive / TWO SPANISH MILL- / ED DOLLARS, or the / Value thereof in GOLD / or SILVER, according to / a Resolution of CON- / GRESS, passed at Bal- / timore, Feb. 26, 1777. / TWO DOLLARS." printed; serial number and signature ink worn off; seal right, hand with flail, sheaves of wheat, threshing machine, "TRIBULATIO DITAT" printed border; "The United Colonies / TWO DOLLARS TWO DOLLARS" printed top and bottom borders; "... 2 ... / Continental Currency / TWO DOLLARS" printed left and right borders.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.7 W-2.9 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Leaves, Sheaves, Wheat, Threshing machines, Hands
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