Paper Receipt of Merrimack County Mutual Fire-Insurance Co., United States/New Hampshire. 2022.28.32

Canonical URI: http://numismatics.org/collection/2022.28.32

Physical Description

  • Axis: 0

  • Measurements

    • Height: 63
    • Width: 152
  • SerialNumber: 5516
  • Shape: Rectangular

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Receipt

  • Date on Object

    • Date: May 10, 1849
  • Manufacture: Printed
  • Material: Paper

  • Authority

  • Geographic

  • Obverse

    • Legend: Merrimack County Mutual Fire-Insurance Company.|Received _ Dollars, twenty six Cent,/ of Ephraim Leighton, being the amount of the/ ASSESSMENT ordered by the DIRECTORS of the/ MERRIMACK COUNTY MUTUAL FIRE-INSURANCE COMPANY,/ April 8, 1848, on PREMIUM NOTE No. 5516.|Saml. Coffin, Treasurer/ CONCORD, May 10, 1849
    • Type: Inscription

Administrative History

  • Identifier: 2022.28.32
  • Department: North American
  • Collection: American Numismatic Society

  • Provenance

    • Gift of John and Nancy Wilson

Subjects

  • Era: Common Era

Notes

  • $0.26
  • Note attached that reads, "May thy joys be as deep/ as the Ocean/ Thy sorrows as light/ as its foam/ Henry F. Leighton/ Dover N.H./ Age 83 yrs/ Aug 27, '79"

Rights

  • CopyrightHolder: American Numismatic Society
  • License: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (images)
  • Rights: Copyright Undetermined