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20 Dollars Gold Certificate of Deposit
| Issuer | Department of Finance, Republic of Hawaii |
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| Year | 1895 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GOLD CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT IWAKALUA DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE REPUBLIC OF HAWAII THIS CERTIFIES, THAT THERE HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED AT THE HAWAIIAN TREASURY TWENTY DOLLARS IN GOLD COIN PAYABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND 20 ISSUE OF 1895 - ACT № 19 |
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| Reverse lettering | HAWAIIAN TREASURY REPUBLIC OF HAWAII. MDCCCXCIV UA MAU KE EA O KA AINA I KA PONO CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT |
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Hawaii's Gold Certificates of Deposit were not conventional circulating currency — they were warehouse receipts backed by gold coin held by the Republic's Treasury, issued during the brief period between the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893 and annexation by the United States in 1898. The Republic of Hawaii had roughly five years to establish credible fiscal institutions, and these certificates were part of that effort.
American Bank Note Company printed the series, as they did for most Hawaiian government paper of the period. The P#8 assignment places this denomination within a small, low-mintage series that never achieved wide distribution before U.S. annexation rendered separate Hawaiian currency instruments redundant.