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Catalog Number |
1911.15.2 |
Object Name |
Currency |
Description |
US Twenty Dollars 3/18/1780 Massachusetts tan print Owned by Mass Bay, Printed by Hall and Sellers Owner Samuel Prentiss Bill was printed on May 5, 1780. Massachusetts bank note printed in 1780. Prior the establishing of the National Mint, every colony/state produced it's own money. The earliest currency printed in the United States was printed in Massachusetts in 1790. The Massachusetts currency were the only currency printed in the 17th century in America. Among the denomiations used include $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $7, $8, and $20. Bill is punched, indicating that the redemption had been cancelled. This results in taking out some of the text One side of this bank note, the text says "Twenty Dollars. State of Maffachufetts (Massachusetts) Bay. The Poffeffor (Possessor) of this Bill shall be paid twenty Spanifh (Spanish) milled Dollars by the thirty-firft (thirty-first) Day of dcecember. One Th...(ousand) Seven Hundred and Eighty-fix (eighty-six), with intereft (interest)...(in like mo)ney at the rate of Five per Centum per Annum (five per hundred of year)...(By the stat)e of Maffachusetts-bay, according to an Act of...(the legisla)ture of the faid (said) state of the Fifth Day of May of 1780". Red Stamp = Phrase "Intereft paid one year" is stamped vertically twice. Annual and month interest is at the bottom left corner of note while signature of R. Cranch (Richard Cranch- Massachusetts Legislator according to LibraryThing.org). Back side of Twenty Dollar note contains a symbol with a face (representing the wind) blowing onto the water, creating waves, with the Latin phrase Vi concitate (meaning "it assaults with a violent force). The text says "Printed by Hall and Sellers. The United...(states en)fure (ensure) the Payment of the w...(ithin Bill), and will draw Bills of Exchange...(for the) Intereft annually, if demanded, according to a Refolution (Resolution) of congress of the 18th of March, 1780". A faded signature from Legislator Thomas Walley is at the bottom. The signatures are not always consistent amongst the bank notes even of those with the same values. Source: http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyText/MA-05-05-80b.html. |
Date |
3/18/1780 |
Year Range from |
1780 |
Year Range to |
1780 |
Subjects |
Paper money Currency |
Search Terms |
American Revolution Massachusetts |
Source |
Prentiss, S Payson |
Collection |
Arlington Historical Society Collection |