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| 正面铭文 | 6 1/4 Cts Treasurer of the Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana TURNPIKE ROAD COMPANY, pay to the bearer on demand, SIX and a QUARTER CENTS. April 22d 1816 Attest, D Stewart Sec'y. Jno Blair President. Murray Draper Fairman & Co |
| 背面描述 | Reverse is plain, with no printed or engraved design elements. |
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Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co. were among the most technically accomplished bank note engravers working in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia, and their involvement here is slightly incongruous — this is road-company scrip, not a bank note, issued to solve a chronic small-change shortage in the Pennsylvania interior. The 6¼-cent denomination is itself a fractional artifact of the old Spanish real system: one real equaled 12½ cents, so this note is exactly half a real.
Turnpike companies in Pennsylvania routinely issued scrip during this period when coined small change was simply unavailable along their routes. Whether it circulated beyond the immediate road corridor is doubtful.