Forty-shilling bill of credit, 1760, face |
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Title | Forty-shilling bill of credit, 1760 |
Creator | North Carolina. Colonial Assembly. |
Date | July 14, 1760 |
Description | Forty shilling bill of credit issued at New Bern, North Carolina in 1760. |
Historical Notes | Due to ongoing problems with counterfeiting, North Carolinians who exchanged paper money in the late colonial period continued to sign the backs of bills to document the currencies’ users. The reverse of this heavily circulated bill is saturated with signatures. |
Subject Topical |
Paper money Numismatic collections Money -- North Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
Subject Geographic | North Carolina |
DCMI Type | Image |
Title Note | Title supplied by repository |
Form General | Money |
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 | CK926.12 |
Citation | Forty-shilling bill of credit, 1760; CK926.12; North Carolina Collection Gallery Numismatic Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Copyright Holder | Public Domain |
Medium of Original | Paper |
Style/Period | Colonial Era |
Description
Title | Forty-shilling bill of credit, 1760, face |
Creator | North Carolina. Colonial Assembly. |
Date | July 14, 1760 |
Description | One of 1,000 of this denomination authorized; printed from set type by James Davis, New Bern; signatures of Samuel Swann, Lewis de Rosset, John Starkey, and John Swann; "Death to counterfeit" printed vertically on left and right edges. |
Transcription | XI. L No. THIS BILL of Forty Shillings, shall pass current in all Payments as Pro-clamation Money, within the Province of NORTH-CAROLINA, according to ACT of ASSEMBLY passed the 14th of July, 1760. 40 s. Death to counterfiet. 40 s. |
Subject (tgm) | Printers' ornaments |
Subject Name |
Davis, James, 1721-1785. Rosset, Lewis de, 1724-1786. Starkey, John, 1697?-1765. Swann, John, 1707-1761. Swann, Samuel, 1704-1774. |
Subject Geographic | North Carolina |
DCMI Type | Image |
Title Note | Title supplied by repository |
Form General | Money |
Physical Description | 78 x 62 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 | CK926.12 |
Creator Identifier | Serial Number [Undetermined] |
Citation | Forty-shilling bill of credit, 1760; CK926.12; North Carolina Collection Gallery Numismatic Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
filename | CK926_12_NC1760_face.tif |
Copyright Holder | Public Domain |
Medium of Original | Paper |
path | \ncc\numismatics\ |
Style/Period | Colonial Era |
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