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| 表面の説明 | Portrait vignette of Benjamin Franklin at upper left and George Washington at upper right, with two cherubs as a central vignette at upper centre. The note bears manuscript signatures across the face. Text inscriptions indicate the denomination and issuing authority in letterpress. |
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| 裏面の説明 | The reverse, visible through the paper in the scan, reflects the layout of the obverse vignettes in a ghost image, consistent with a thin period paper construction. No distinct independent reverse design elements are discernible. |
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The 1846 Liberian 50 Cents note is among the earliest paper currency issued by the republic, which had only declared independence in 1847 — making this note a pre-independence instrument, technically issued by the Commonwealth of Liberia under the authority of the American Colonization Society before full sovereignty was established. The timing matters: these circulated in a settler economy still defining its own monetary footing, with trade goods and foreign coin dominating daily exchange.
The American Bank Note Company's involvement is unsurprising — they handled most early American-sphere colonial and republican issues — but it does mean the notes were produced thousands of miles from where they circulated, with no local printing infrastructure to fall back on for replacements.