Bank of Yanceyville five-dollar note, 1856, face |
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Title | Bank of Yanceyville five-dollar note, 1856 |
Creator | Bank of Yanceyville (Yanceyville, N.C.) |
Date | January 19, 1856 |
Description | Bank of Yanceyville five-dollar note, 1856 |
Historical Notes | As on the Great Seal of North Carolina, the Roman goddesses of plenty and liberty (Ops and Libertas) are represented at the center of this Bank of Yanceyville note. Ops is invariably portrayed with a horn-shaped cornucopia filled with a land's "plenty" of fruits, vegetables, flowering plants, and other bounty. A portion of a cornucopia can be seen at Ops's feet in this vignette. Her companion in the scene, Libertas, holds on her left shoulder a staff on top of which is perched a Phrygian cap. In the Roman empire that conical hat was worn by subjects who had been freed from slavery. Many centuries later, during the American and French revolutions, patriots adopted that same style of hat as a symbol of liberty. |
Subject Geographic | United States, North Carolina, Caswell County, Yanceyville |
DCMI Type | Image |
Title Note | Title supplied by respository |
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 | CK56.4364 |
Citation | Bank of Yanceyville five-dollar note, 1856; CK56.4364; North Carolina Collection Numismatic Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
filename | CK56_4364_BY56_face.tif |
Copyright Holder | Public Domain |
Medium of Original | Paper |
path | \ncc\numismatics |
Style/Period | Bank Notes |
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