North Carolina Four Dollars Hillsborough Issue banknote, August 21, 1775
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
August 21, 1775
This North Carolina colonial currency note, dated August 21, 1775, is a Four Dollars denomination from the historic 'Hillsborough' issue. Printed on laid paper, this uniface banknote features a prominent Masonic vignette at the lower left, accompanied by the motto 'Aera of Masonry' inscribed around the perimeter.
The design includes intricate border work and scrollwork typical of the period. The note is hand-signed in brown ink by Samuel Johnston, Richard Cogdell, Richard Caswell, and Andrew Knox.Additional signatures 'John R' and 'LaConige' are present on the blank reverse. As a piece of colonial financial history, it was intended to be exchanged for later currency issues or become invalid by 1784, serving as a significant artifact of the North Carolina Provincial Congress.
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Physical characteristics
- Format
- uniface
- Material
- laid paper
Technical characteristics
- Series
- Hillsborough Issue
- Denomination
- Four Dollars
- Catalog reference
- Fr. NC-149
- Issuing authority
- North Carolina Provincial Congress
Design
- Motto
- Aera of Masonry
- Vignette
- Masonic symbols
- Signatories
- Samuel Johnston, Richard Cogdell, Richard Caswell, Andrew Knox
Identification
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- Described from a single auction-house listing published on Invaluable (reproduced with Invaluable's permission). Details apply to that one example; other examples of the type may differ, and the listing is supplementary evidence, not authentication.
- Maker named in listing
- Richard Caswell, Samuel Johnston, Richard Cogdell, Andrew Knox
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