2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2022
Hopkinson represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. He served in his capacity as treasurer of loans from July 1778 to July 1781, a particularly difficult period of financing for the newly formed nation. "These bills of exchange were issued in uncut sheets of four and were redeemable in Paris. They were watermarked United States l, 2, 3 or 4 corresponding to the number on the bill. If the first bill was lost or captured at sea (ship captains had standing orders to weight bills of exchanged and throw them overboard if stopped by a British ship of war), the holder would then send the second bill, and so on." (Anderson) Cancellation at center. Fine.
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