Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.048
- Date:
- 1925
- Description:
- Bank note, Rockingham National Bank, Exeter, NH, 1925. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "NATIONAL CURRENCY / SECURED BY UNITED STATES BONDS / DEPOSITED WITH THE TREASURER OF / THE United States of America / SERIES OF 1902. / THE / ROCKINGHAM / NATIONAL BANK / OF / EXETER / WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND / FIVE DOLLARS / Exeter, NEW HAMPSHIRE Dec. 30, 1925". Oval portrait of Benjamin Harrison on left. Seal of U.S. Treasury printed in blue, lower right. Number "12889" printed twice in blue, and six times in border. Number "6425" printed twice. Numeral "5" in each corner. Signed by bank cashier and vice president. Reverse printed in green: image of "LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS", with "NATIONAL CURRENCY" below; numeral "5" in each corner; and legal text at bottom.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.2 W-7.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Descended in the Pettengill family.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of James E. Miles
- People:
- Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901)
- Subjects:
- Bank notes, Currency, Harrison, Benjamin, Pilgrims
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