Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.074
- Creator:
- Hall and Sellers
- Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- 1779
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "Eighty Dollars. / Printed by HALL and SEL-LERS. 1779." printed; thin decorative border; strawberry leaf impression center. Reverse: "No. Eighty Dollars. / THE BEARER is en- / titled to RECEIVE / EIGHTY SPANISH milled / DOLLARS, or an equal / Sum in GOLD or SILVER, / according to a Resolution / of CONGRESS of the 14th / JANUARY, 1779./ Eighty Dollars." printed; "124133" written in ink top; J Graff's signature bottom with illegible signature; seal left, large tree part in red ink, "ET IN SECULA SECULORUM FLORESCEBIT" printed border; " OF NORTH 80 DOL. AMERICA" printed top border; "OF NORTH EIGHTY DOLL. AMERICA" printed bottom border; "THE UNITED STATES / EIGHTY DOLLARS" printed left border, part in red ink; "THE UNITED STATES 80 DOL." printed right border.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.7 W-2.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Leaves, Trees
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