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Catalog Number |
1933.15.32 |
Object Name |
Currency |
Description |
No. 8659 5/1780 Continental Eight Dollar Bill Tan reverse Issued by Massachussetts Bay, Printer Hall + Sellers One side of this bank note, the text says "Eight Dollars. State of Maffachufetts (Massachusetts) Bay. Followed by the number (26752) The Poffeffor (Possessor) of th...(is B)ill fhall (shall) be paid eight Spanifh (Spanish) milled D...(ollar)s by the thirty-firft (thirty-first) Day of December. One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-fix (eighty-six), with intereft (interest) in like money at the rate of Five per Centum per Annum (five per hundred of year). By the stat) 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. Annual and month interest is at the bottom left corner of note while signatures of Massachusetts Legislators Joe Henderson and R. Cranch (Richard Cranch) are at the bottom. Back side of Eight Dollar note contains a symbol with a harp with thirteen strings (representing thirteen colonies), with Latin phrase Majora minoribus consonan (meaning "The larger are in harmony with the smaller"). The text says "Printed by Hall and Sellers. The United States enfure (ensure) the Payment of the within 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". The bottom is endorsed by Legislator Peter Boyer. |
Date |
5/1780 |
Year Range from |
1780 |
Year Range to |
1780 |
Subjects |
Paper money Currency |
Search Terms |
Massachusetts American Revolution |
Dimensions |
W-3.75 L-2.875 inches |
Source |
Parmenter, Judge James |
Collection |
Arlington Historical Society Collection |