North Carolina Currency
July 14, 1760
An emission of £12,000 in indented bills of credit made legal tender as Proclamation Money. The notes were typeset with blank backs. Denominations issued were: 4d, 6d, 8d, 1s, 2s, 2s8d, 5s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s and £3.
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40s Serial Number: faded NC 07/14/60
Signers: John Starkey, Samuel Swann, John Swann, Lewis De Rosset.
Size: 61 x 72mm (outer border designs tightly cropped)
Comments: Signed in light brown inks. The borders are tightly cropped. On some denominations the double line is the top border, while on this denomination it seperated the main text and the serial number area. On the blank back are handwritten annotations: Quince to B.D., Samuel Lindal to J.H., X with 2 over 1.2 and other faded and over written contemporary notes. A recent hand has added He/17222. Click here to view the annotated back.
Provenance: Purchased through the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment from the EAHA mail bid auction of 11/1/97, lot 417.
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£3 Serial Number: 247 NC 07/14/60
Signers: John Starkey, Samuel Swann, John Swann, Lewis De Rosset.
Size: not available
Comments: Signed and numbered in light brown inks. An image of the blank back is not available.
Courtesy of Early American Numismatic Auctions, Inc. Images used with permission from their on-line auction catalog for the auction of November 16, 1996, lot 648.
