. Currency and banking in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay. bills in the separate collections nor to point out allparticulars of interest connected with the individualspecimens. Knowledge upon these points may proveuseful for future investigators of this subject. The collection of the Essex Institute at Salem con-tains a 5^-. colony bill, bearing date December 10, 1690;a IS. bill bearing date 1713 ; a ]s. New Hampshire mer-chants note of 1734; irt., 3^. and 5^^. bills of the emis-sion of fractional currency in 1737 ; a ^s. bill of theSilver Bank of 1740; a 3^. bill of the Ipswich or Essex
. Currency and banking in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay. bills in the separate collections nor to point out allparticulars of interest connected with the individualspecimens. Knowledge upon these points may proveuseful for future investigators of this subject. The collection of the Essex Institute at Salem con-tains a 5^-. colony bill, bearing date December 10, 1690;a IS. bill bearing date 1713 ; a ]s. New Hampshire mer-chants note of 1734; irt., 3^. and 5^^. bills of the emis-sion of fractional currency in 1737 ; a ^s. bill of theSilver Bank of 1740; a 3^. bill of the Ipswich or EssexCounty land bank of 1741, and a 2<2^. bill of 1744. The 55. colony bill is the oldest bill that I haveseen.^ It happens that among the specimens of theearly bills, especially those emitted prior to 1713, thereare several which are either defective, altered, orcounterfeit. They may have been taken from court •Cf. Plate I. Plate i6. 7; re 12 o oo , CfQ ft H 3 ^ 5 ►a < ^ zr ^ ^ ^ •^ ^ S 3 n. a> 3, ^ ! ^ ^ re 2 CfQ 3 O O O 5- Q reo n 5 I5i. •^M-V : ^ V§ #^ -^ ^ >•■ >..j3lii»>^.-
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