Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.171
- Creator:
- American Bank Note Company
- Place of Origin:
- Lynn, MA
- Date:
- 1864
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "THREE DOLLARS / Will be paid by the / PRESIDENT DIRECTORS CO. OF / THE Lynn Mechanics' Bank / to bearer on demand / LYNN, MAS... / June 1st 1864 / CASHR. PREST." printed; "No." printed top; "A" printed right; "Massachusetts" printed left; "AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO BOSTON." fine print bottom; "165" written in blue ink top; Wm. Bassett and M.C. Pratt's signatures bottom; "3" printed in decorative circles top corners; man's portrait in oval bottom left; two cherubs with tablet bottom right; country scene center, three horses drink from well, man, goat, sheep, countryside; thin black-line border; green paper; "COUNTERFEIT / E.B.R. / SUFFOLK BANK" imprinted center, stamp's ink eaten through note.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.8 W-6.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Horses, Wells, Men, Goats, Sheep, Cherubs, Tablets, Country life
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