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| Title | Five-shilling debenture bill, 1768 |
| Creator | North Carolina. Colonial Assembly. |
| Date | December 1768 |
| Description | Five-shilling debenture bill issued at New Bern, North Carolina in 1768. |
| Historical Notes | In November 1768, the month before this issue of currency was authorized, North Carolina’s colonial assembly submitted to King George III its formal opposition to the British government’s Townshend Acts. Those acts imposed taxes on wine, tea, glass, paper, and other commodities imported by the American colonies. |
| 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 | CK56.1361 |
| Citation | Five-shilling debenture bill, 1768; CK56.1361; 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 | Five-shilling debenture bill, 1768, face |
| Creator | North Carolina. Colonial Assembly. |
| Date | December 1768 |
| Description | Bill is torn in half; "(5 s) Death to counterfeit (VS.)" printed vertically down right and left border; signatures at bottom are faded. |
| Transcription | [No.] [VS.] FIVE SHILLINGS. THE Province [of] NORTH-CAROLINA is in-debted to the Posse[ssor] hereof, Five Shillings, Proclamation Money to be paid out of the Pub-lic Treasury, on Demand, at any Time after the Tenth Day of Ju[ne] 1772, according to ACT of ASSEMBLY, [?]December 1768. (VS) Death to counterfeit. (5s) |
| Subject (tgm) | Printers' ornaments |
| Subject Name |
Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789. Rosset, Lewis de, 1724-1786. Hasell, James, d. 1785. Howe, Thomas C. |
| Subject Geographic | North Carolina |
| DCMI Type | Image |
| Notes | Torn in half |
| Title Note | Title supplied by repository |
| Form General | Money |
| Physical Description | 98 x 65 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 | CK56.1361 |
| Creator Identifier | 9622 |
| Citation | Five-shilling debenture bill, 1768; CK56.1361; North Carolina Collection Gallery Numismatic Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| filename | CK56_1361_NC1768_a_b_face.tif |
| Copyright Holder | Public Domain |
| Medium of Original | Paper |
| path | \ncc\numismatics\ |
| Style/Period | Colonial Era |
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