North Carolina Colonial Note Fr#NC-177A August 8, 1778 $10 Independence *9 Known*
The bills from the August 8, 1778 North Carolina issue were payable in Spanish milled dollars and printed by James Davis on dark course paper. This $10 note bears the motto “Independence”. There was a shortage of these notes due to a smallpox epidemic at the time. Nice margins remain on this example and of the 16,666 originally printed, only 9 are known to exist today.
Signers: Benjamin Hawkins, Jesse Cobb
The bills from the August 8, 1778 North Carolina issue were payable in Spanish milled dollars and printed by James Davis on dark course paper. This $10 note bears the motto “Independence”. There was a shortage of these notes due to a smallpox epidemic at the time. Nice margins remain on this example and of the 16,666 originally printed, only 9 are known to exist today.
Signers: Benjamin Hawkins, Jesse Cobb
The bills from the August 8, 1778 North Carolina issue were payable in Spanish milled dollars and printed by James Davis on dark course paper. This $10 note bears the motto “Independence”. There was a shortage of these notes due to a smallpox epidemic at the time. Nice margins remain on this example and of the 16,666 originally printed, only 9 are known to exist today.
Signers: Benjamin Hawkins, Jesse Cobb
Date: August 8, 1778
Denomination: $10
Friedberg #: NC-177A
State: North Carolina
Certification: N/A
Grade: N/A
Comments: None