United States Notes - 1880 Fifty Dollar Legal Tender Note, Benjamin Franklin. Large Red Plain Seal
Obverse: Bust of Benjamin Franklin, 1706–1790, statesman, printer and scientist, and one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence. Engraved by Charles Burt from the Duplessis portrait. At the right, Liberty dressed as Columbia. Large Red Plain Seal
Reverse: Floral design.
Signatures: (as depicted)
William Starke Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury and James William Hyatt, Treasurer of the United States.Inscriptions: Act of March 3rd 1863 - Engraved & Printed at the Bureau, Engraving & Printing - Register Of The Treasury - Treasurer Of The United States - This Note Is A Legal Tender For Fifty Dollars - Series of 1880 - The United States Will Pay To Bearer Fifty Dollars Washington D.C. - United States Note - Amer Septent Sigil Thesaur - Printed at the Bureau, Engraving & Printing Treasury, Dep! - United States of America - This Note is a Legal Tender at its face value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Counterfeiting or altering this note or passing any counterfeit or alteration of it, or having in possession any false or counterfeit plate or impression of it, or any paper made in imitation of the paper on which it is printed is felony, and is punishable by $5,000 fine, or fifteen (15) years imprisonment at hard labor or both.
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