 North Carolina Currency. April 2, 1776 Halifax Issue. Two Dollars and an Half. Liberty Cap over Altar Vignette, motto LIBERTAS & NATALE SOLUM. No.2834. Signed by Haywood, Webb, Williams and Sumner. Printed on thick laid paper. Wider format note. Ornate floral detail at left over circle enclosing vignette. A bold, vivid and bright note with a wide sheet margin at the left.
About Very Fine. This is still very crisp, though quarter folded with a long corner crease and heavier handling. From the face, the look of a much higher grade. Several bottom edge splits as typical to this thicker paper type. Deeply embossed plate and well printed. There is a strip of excess ink at the right plate line on the right side of the margin. A top border line pinhole and faint juncture slit at the center seen under the light. Very sharp eye appeal.
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Estate.
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