Four-dollar bill of credit, 1776, face |
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Title | Four-dollar bill of credit, 1776 |
Creator | North Carolina. Provincial Congress (Halifax, N.C.) |
Date | April 2, 1776 |
Description | Four-dollar bill of credit issued in 1776 and printed from plate likely engraved by Gabriel Lewyn of Baltimore, Maryland. |
Historical Notes | A sheaf of wheat decorates this second variety of a 1776 four-dollar bill. Wheat, along with barley, was an important staple crop in colonial America. In harvesting wheat, farmers tied stalks of it into small bundles like this one and stacked them in their fields for drying before threshing and storing their grain. |
Subject Name |
Lewyn, Gabriel. |
Subject Topical |
Paper money Numismatic collections Money -- North Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 |
Subject Geographic |
North Carolina Maryland |
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 | CK926.29 |
Citation | Four-dollar bill of credit, 1776; CK926.29; North Carolina Collection Numismatic Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Copyright Holder | Public Domain |
Medium of Original | Paper |
Style/Period | American Revolution |
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Title | Four-dollar bill of credit, 1776, face |
Creator | North Carolina. Provincial Congress (Halifax, N.C.) |
Date | April 2, 1776 |
Description | One of 10,000 of this type authorized, printed from engraved plate probably made by metalsmith Gabriel Lewyn of Baltimore, Maryland; vignette at bottom left of sheaf of wheat; four signatures: David Sumner, William Haywood, William Williams, and J. Webb; "FOUR DOLLARS" printed vertically on left border |
Transcription | DEATH TO COUNTERFEIT No Carolina Currency No. FOUR DOLLARS By Authority of Congress at Halifax April 2 1776 |
Subject (tgm) |
Wheat Printers' ornaments |
Subject Name |
Sumner, David. Haywood, William, 1730-1779. Williams, William. Webb, John. |
Subject Geographic |
North Carolina Maryland |
DCMI Type | Image |
Title Note | Title supplied by repository |
Form General | Money |
Physical Description | 83 x 57 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 | CK926.29 |
Creator Identifier | Serial Number 3807 |
Citation | Four-dollar bill of credit, 1776; CK926.29; North Carolina Collection Numismatic Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
filename | CK926_29_NC1776_face.tif |
Copyright Holder | Public Domain |
Medium of Original | Paper |
path | \ncc\numismatics\ |
Style/Period | American Revolution |
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