United States currency and banking miscellany, 1770-1866.

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United States currency and banking miscellany, 1770-1866.

U.S. paper money, 1770-1865, checks, promissory notes, bank draft; 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, 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.

0.1 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7904343

Cornell University Library

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