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United States Currency and Banking Miscellany

 Collection
Identifier: 8922

Content Description

Collection contains United States paper money, 1770-1865, checks, promissory notes, bank draftd; U.S. government bond issued Feb. 17, 1864; two deposit slips dated Sept. 12, 1865, and Dec. 14, 1866; and part of a ticket issued in a lottery established by the state of New Hampshire for the benefit of Dartmouth College. The money includes colonial currency, Confederate currency, and state bank notes of 1861-1864. Also included is paper money issued by the Bank of Louisiana (1862), and by the West Feliciano Rail Road Company, State of Mississippi; and commemorative facsimiles of Confederate currency, two of them issued by the Charleston, S.C. Chamber of Commerce. The collection contains one 3-cent coin from 1852.

Dates

  • 1770 - 1865

Creator

Extent

0.2 cubic feet.

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

United States currency and bank notes.

Processing Information

Formerly catalogued as Rare Books HG607 .U58 Broadside box ++.

Status
Completed
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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