State of Massachusetts Bay Bond

State of Massachusetts Bay Bond. Commodities Bond. 6% interest.

State: Massachusetts
Year: Jan. 1, 1780 

Part of the text reads “Five Bushels of CORN, sixty-eight pounds and four-seventh parts of a pound of BEEF, ten pounds of SHEEPS WOOL, and sixteen pounds of SOLE LEATHER shall then cost, more or less than One Hundred and Thirty Pounds current money, at the then current prices of said articles, etc. etc.......”

Bond related to raising funds for “this State’s Quota of the CONTINENTAL ARMY, agreeable to the Recommendation of CONGRESS, and for supplying the Treasury with a Sum of Money for that purpose”. Signed by Treasurer, H. Gardner.

We have two especially attractive examples. Archival restoration at back folds but very attractive. So historic!!

Price: $700.00

For more information visit our web site, http://www.glabarre.com, or call George LaBarre at 1-800-717-9529.

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State of Massachusetts Bay Bond

State of Massachusetts Bay Bond.

1780 State treasurer’s office £15 bond with interest at 6%. “Massachusetts State Lottery, Class the Fourth.” Signed by the Treasurer, H. Gardner. The bottom border reads “DEATH TO COUNTERFEIT THIS”

Early!! Only 1 available of this great bond!! Rare!!

State: Massachusetts
Year: 1780

For more information visit our web site, http://www.glabarre.com, or call George LaBarre at 1-800-717-9529.

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Collectible 1780 Massachusetts Bay Commodities Bond

State of Massachusetts Bay Commodities Bond. 6% interest. Part of the text reads “Five Bushels of CORN, sixty-eight pounds and four-seventh parts of a pound of BEEF, ten pounds of SHEEPS WOOL, and sixteen pounds of SOLE LEATHER shall then cost, more or less than One Hundred and Thirty Pounds current money, at the then current prices of said articles, etc. etc.......”

Bond related to raising funds for “this State’s Quota of the CONTINENTAL ARMY, agreeable to the Recommendation of CONGRESS, and for supplying the Treasury with a Sum of Money for that purpose”. Signed by Treasurer, H. Gardner. We have two especially attractive examples.

Archival restoration at back folds but very attractive. So historic!!

State: Massachusetts
Year: Jan. 1, 1780

For more information visit our web site, http://www.glabarre.com, or call George LaBarre at 1-800-717-9529.

George H. LaBarre Galleries - Collectible Old Stocks and Bonds and Old Stocks and Bonds
http://www.glabarre.com A foreign antique stock and bond company.

1777 State of the Massachusetts Bay Bond

This vignette has often been attributed wrongly to have been engraved by Paul Revere partly due to the similarity that it has with the sword in hand Massachusetts currency.

"Sword in Hand" Bond engraved by Nathanial Hurd. The condition is excellent and is far superior than normally found.

For more information visit our web site, http://www.glabarre.com, or call George LaBarre at 1-800-717-9529.

George H. LaBarre Galleries - Collectible Old Stocks and Bonds and Old Stocks and Bonds
http://www.glabarre.com A foreign antique stock and bond company.