Twenty-shilling bill of credit, 1785, face |
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Title | Twenty-shilling bill of credit, 1785, face |
Creator | North Carolina. General Assembly. |
Date | December 29, 1785 |
Description | "TWENTY SHILLINGS SPECIES" printed vertically on right border; decorative image on left side of bill of the Angel Gabriel blowing his horn and perched atop a Christian cross on a church. |
Transcription | No. CAROLINA CURRENCY TWENTY SHILLINGS. [One Pound.} THIS Bill of TWENTY SHILLINGS shall be a Tender in all payments whatever, agreeable to an act of assembly pa-sed at Newbern, the twenty-ninth day of December, A.D. seven-teen hundred and eight-five. COUNTERFEITERS BEWARE. |
Subject (tgm) |
Angels Trumpets Crosses Churches Printers' ornaments |
Subject Name | Gabriel (Archangel) |
Subject Geographic | North Carolina |
DCMI Type | Image |
Title Note | Title supplied by repository |
Form General | Money |
Physical Description | 110 x 77 mm |
Collection in Repository | North Carolina Collection Gallery Numismatic Collection |
Digital Collection | North Carolina Currency |
Repository | North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Local Identifier | CK135 |
Creator Identifier | Serial Number 4039 |
Citation | Twenty-shilling bill of credit, 1785; CK135; North Carolina Collection Numismatic Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
filename | CK135_NC1785_face.tif |
Copyright Holder | Public Domain |
Medium of Original | Paper |
path | \ncc\numismatics\ |
Style/Period | Early Federal Period |
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