Eight Gloucester Bank Notes, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1840s-60s, all Haxby MA-626, a $1, G20, a $2, G36b, a $3, G48b, a $5, G62b, a $10, G80b, a $20, G88b, a $50, unlisted in Haxby from the American Bank Note Co., and a $100, G104, all signed by bank president Isaac Somes, with annotations reading "With-held from currency as a sample of Gloucester Bank bills."
Note: Each of these notes is SENC in Haxby's reference and intangible in Bower's
Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money.
Condition
Condition: each with adhesives to reverse from previous mounting causing most to be stiff and seemingly brittle, the $100 with two pinholes and a small margin tear, the $50 with five pinholes, the $20 with one pinhole and a small corner tear, the $10 with a small central loss and tear to upper margin, the $5 with two pinholes and small losses to margins, the $3 with two pinholes, the $2 with one pinhole and scattered small tears to margins, the $1 with five pinholes, and some tears and losses to margins.
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