Encapsulated and graded by PMG Very Fine 20 NET (hole cancelled, contemporaneously sewn at center, splits). Engraved note for the soldier-use currency, 6.5 x 3.25, with text at the top reading, “Colony of the Massachusetts Bay.} [No. 4331] May 25 1775,” with the date and year enclosed in dark circles. The remaining engraved text reads: “The possessor of this Note shall be intitled [sic] to receive out of the Publick Treasury of this Colony the Sum of Ten Shillings lawfull Money on the twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1776 with Interest at the Rate of Six pr ct. P Annum; and this Note shall be received in all payments at the Treasury, at any time after the date hereof for the principal sum without Interest, if so paid before the said 25th day of May A.D. 1776.” Signed in ink by Henry Gardner as receiver general, and countersigned by Thomas Plympton.
