1870 Cr.52 $2 The State of Mississippi - Jackson, MISSISSIPPI Note AU
1870 Cr.52 $2 The State of Mississippi note from Jackson, MS.
The 1870 series of certificates was authorized by "an act to provide for the issuance of certificates of indebtedness by the state and for other purposes" which was approved on June 13, 1870, just months after Mississippi was readmitted into the Union. They were to be accepted for all state dues and were convertible into 8% state bonds, redeemable annually for five years beginning in 1872 with a special tax being levied to redeem them.
This attractive note from the Continental Bank Note Co. features a large portrait of Auditor of Public Accounts, Henry Musgrove, on the left. At the center is a Vignette of laborers loading cotton bales onto a wagon, flanked by two "2" protectors in green. A small Vignette of a train at the station is seen on the lower right.
This note grades About Uncirculated with a hole-out cancellation.
1870 Cr.52 $2 The State of Mississippi note from Jackson, MS.
The 1870 series of certificates was authorized by "an act to provide for the issuance of certificates of indebtedness by the state and for other purposes" which was approved on June 13, 1870, just months after Mississippi was readmitted into the Union. They were to be accepted for all state dues and were convertible into 8% state bonds, redeemable annually for five years beginning in 1872 with a special tax being levied to redeem them.
This attractive note from the Continental Bank Note Co. features a large portrait of Auditor of Public Accounts, Henry Musgrove, on the left. At the center is a Vignette of laborers loading cotton bales onto a wagon, flanked by two "2" protectors in green. A small Vignette of a train at the station is seen on the lower right.
This note grades About Uncirculated with a hole-out cancellation.
1870 Cr.52 $2 The State of Mississippi note from Jackson, MS.
The 1870 series of certificates was authorized by "an act to provide for the issuance of certificates of indebtedness by the state and for other purposes" which was approved on June 13, 1870, just months after Mississippi was readmitted into the Union. They were to be accepted for all state dues and were convertible into 8% state bonds, redeemable annually for five years beginning in 1872 with a special tax being levied to redeem them.
This attractive note from the Continental Bank Note Co. features a large portrait of Auditor of Public Accounts, Henry Musgrove, on the left. At the center is a Vignette of laborers loading cotton bales onto a wagon, flanked by two "2" protectors in green. A small Vignette of a train at the station is seen on the lower right.
This note grades About Uncirculated with a hole-out cancellation.