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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Public Treasury, Island of Saint John (now Prince Edward Island) |
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| Year | 1790 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed on laid paper, with a simple decorative border of repeated ornamental devices running along all four edges. The central text body, set in italic letterpress, states the legal tender obligation of the bill for discharge of duties, taxes, and debts payable at the Public Treasury of the Island, by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly passed the twentieth day of November 1790. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, with the denomination restated in the lower left as "Ten Shillings." The left and right margins carry the printed warnings "Island of Saint John" and "Death to counterfeit" respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | THIS Bill, of Ten Shillings, shall be accepted as a legal Tender in Discharge of any Duties, Taxes, or other Debts whatsoever, due to, and payable at, the Public Treasury of this Island, in Virtue of an Act of the General Assembly thereof, passed the twentieth Day of November 1790. Island of Saint John. Death to counterfeit. Ten Shillings. |
| Reverse description | The reverse appears plain, without printed design or lettering, consistent with colonial-era treasury issues of this period. |
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