Continental currency from the state of Massachusetts Bay : one bill of credit for four dollars [MSS 599.1] and one for eight dollars [MSS 599.2]

Continental currency from the state of Massachusetts Bay : one bill of credit for four dollars [MSS 599.1] and one for eight dollars [MSS 599.2]

[Philadelphia] Hall and Sellers [ca. 1780]

2 items. MSS 599.1: 8 x 10 cm. ; MSS 599.2: 7 x 10 cm.

MSS 599.1 MSS 599.2

Engraved by Henry Dawkins -- see E.P. Newman, The ealy paper money of America (2008) p. 215.
Both items signed on front by S. Henshaw and R. Cranch; signed on verso by Peter Boyer
Printed according to the Continental Congress resolution of March 18, 1780.
Recto printed in black; verso in red and black.
Serial no. for .1, badly faded: 26833; only the last two digits of serial no. are still legible: 37
Both items cut cancelled. Digitized images available, see URLs

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