Currency

Object Name:

Currency

Object ID:

2012.500.170

Creator:

Dawkins, Henry -- Engraver; Hall and Sellers -- Printer

Place of Origin:

NH

Date:

after 1780

Description:

Currency. Bank Note. Reproduction. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "Printed by HALL and SELLERS. / THE UNITED STATES ensure the Payment / of the within BILL, and will draw Bills / of Exchange for the Interest annually, if de- / manded, according to a Resolution of CON- / GRESS, of the 18th of March, 1780."printed; "THE UNITED STATES / SEVEN DOLLARS" printed in banner top; "THE UNITED STATES" printed in banner bottom; JT. Gilman's signature bottom; leaf design center, image in circle, "SERENABIT" printed in border; decorative border left, right sides. Reverse: "SEVEN DOLLARS / STATE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE. / No. Seven Dollars. / THE Possessor ... Bill shall be paid / SEVEN Span... ...ARS by the Thirty- / first Day of December ... Seven Hundred and / Eighty-six, with In... ...ney, at the Rate of / Five per Centum per ... ...tate of NEW-HAMP- / SHIRE, according to a... Legislature of the said / State, of the Twenty-ninth Day of April, 1780. / Interest. s. d. q. / Annually, 2 1 1 / Monthly, 0 2 01/2" printed; "Seven Dollars" printed vertically left; "7 D" printed vertically right; J. Pearson, J McClure, E Robinson's signatures bottom; decorative border.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-3 W-3.7 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

Subjects:

Banking, Bank notes