 Colony of New Hampshire. June 20, 1775. ''Six'' Shillings. No.2561. Raised Denomination Note from a One Shilling. Payable on December 20, 177''8''. Signed by Thomps.[on] and N.[icholas] Gilman. Printed on laid paper. 169mm by 75mm. Standard designs with text at the right and indent at the left with vignette of the top of a large tree. Serial number block at the top center in large square brackets and date over the upper right portion of the text. The textual part of the raising is subtle, but the added 'Six' is darker ink than the text and printed over a clear erasure. The vignette is clearly from the One Shilling type. The Colony left itself wide open to have the One Shilling notes raised. Using similar indent vignettes on two denominations, One Shilling and Six Shillings, was a severe error on the part of the government and the error was compounded further with having denominations both three letters long.
The note raisers certainly had a field day given this ''softball'' tossed in their direction. All they needed to add five shillings into their pockets was one stroke of a 'Six' die stamped onto a genuine bill in the perfectly fitted space of the removed 'One'. An intriguing example. One of the higher grade examples of this series we have seen. Bright and clean from the face. Very Fine to Extremely Fine. A few heavy vertical folds seen from the face, but the only splits are one at the extremities of the folds. Well margined with a superior indent. On the verso there are paper strip reinforcements on the back edges and some of the vertical folds. A patch of toning at the lower right. Corner tip mounted (loosened on the bottom) onto a white card. Boyd's pencil code, ''nrxx'', on the back of the card with the penciled price '$35-'. An interesting raised bill and a worthy representative of this rare type.
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Estate.
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