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Catalog Number |
1933.15.33 |
Object Name |
Currency |
Description |
No. 5214 1780(1776) Continental Four Dollar Bill Tan reverse Issued by Massachussetts Bay, Printer Hall + Sellers One side of this bank note, the text says "Four Dollars. State of Maffachufetts (Massachusetts) Bay. Followed by the number (5214) and Four Dollars. The following paragraph reads: "The Poffeffor (Possessor) of this Bill shall be paid four Spanifh (Spanish) milled Dollars by the thirty-firft (thirty-first) Day of December. One Th...(ousand) Seven Hundred and Eighty-fix (eighty-six), with intereft (interest)…(in like mone0y 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 Four Dollar note contains a wild boar with a spear charging with the phrase Aut mors aut vita decora (meaning "Either Death or an Honorable Life"). The text says "Printed by Hall and Sellers. The United.(States enfure (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. |
Date |
1780 |
Year Range from |
1776 |
Year Range to |
1780 |
Subjects |
Paper money Currency |
Search Terms |
Massachusetts American Revolution |
Dimensions |
W-3.625 L-2.875 inches |
Source |
Parmenter, Judge James |
Collection |
Arlington Historical Society Collection |