This extremely scarce $50 note from the May 15, 1779 North Carolina issue features ornamental borders and a mostly typeset design. Printed on light course paper by Hugh Walker of Wilmington, NC. The printer included secret marks in the text to deter counterfeiters. The secret mark on this $50 bill is a circumflex above the e in silver. There is a motto at the bottom left that reads “A Righteous Cause the Protection of Providence”. Death to counterfeit can be seen on the left edge. A true rarity, of the 2,000 originally printed, only 4 are known to survive today.
Signers: John Taylor, …
This extremely scarce $50 note from the May 15, 1779 North Carolina issue features ornamental borders and a mostly typeset design. Printed on light course paper by Hugh Walker of Wilmington, NC. The printer included secret marks in the text to deter counterfeiters. The secret mark on this $50 bill is a circumflex above the e in silver. There is a motto at the bottom left that reads “A Righteous Cause the Protection of Providence”. Death to counterfeit can be seen on the left edge. A true rarity, of the 2,000 originally printed, only 4 are known to survive today.
Signers: John Taylor, …
