Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.088
- Creator:
- Rawdon, Wright, Hatch Edson; New England Bank Note Company
- Place of Origin:
- Claremont, NH
- Date:
- 1854
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "NEW-HAMPSHIRE. / No. / A / The Claremont Bank / Will pay Ten Dollars on demand / to the bearer. CLAREMONT. Jany. 1st, 18 / Cash. Pres." printed; "Rawdon, Wright, Hatch Edson, New-York. New England Bank Note Co. Boston." fine print bottom; "TEN" printed red ink bottom; "54" written in ink right; GN Farwell and Ambrose Gosset's signatures bottom; "10" printed in decorative circle top right corner; "X" printed in decorative circles bottom left corner; "X" large print center, girl's portrait in circle on top; two standing women right; seated woman, cotton, spinning wheel, bale, barrel, background village left.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.9 W-6.9 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Cotton, Barrel, Villages, Girls, Spinning wheels
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