Paper Check of Southern Life Insurance and Trust Company, United States/Florida. 2022.28.6

Canonical URI: http://numismatics.org/collection/2022.28.6

Physical Description

  • Axis: 0

  • Measurements

    • Height: 78
    • Width: 200
  • SerialNumber: 1167
  • Shape: Rectangular

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Check

  • Date on Object

    • Date: May 16, 1840
  • Manufacture: Printed
  • Material: Paper

  • Authority

  • Geographic

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ORIGINAL|SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE and TRUST COMPANY.|$500|Branch Apalacha Florida, 16 May 1840|Mess Young Smith and Co Four months after sight|Five Hundred|Pay to the order of|No. 17|Rawdon, Wright and Hatch, New-York
    • Type: Seated women supporting arms

  • Reverse

    • Legend: I hereby acknowledge/ to have remitted/ the within bill to/ Young Smith and Co./ to apply on my acct./ and agree to hold myself/ responsible for its/ prompt payment/ at maturity/ B.JJ. Caso/ Young Smith and Co.
    • Type: Hand-written inscription

Administrative History

  • Identifier: 2022.28.6
  • Department: North American
  • Collection: American Numismatic Society

  • Provenance

    • Gift of John and Nancy Wilson

Subjects

  • Era: Common Era

Notes

  • $500

Rights

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