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Show EARLY BILL ON EXHIBIT AS SOUVENIR rOCATBXLO, Idaho A meet Interesting piece of currency on whieh waa used in this country Just a year after tha Declaration of Independence, haa come to light In Pocatallo, In the possession of Mrs. Laura Jaan Inglae, operator of a email grocery etor at 0i South Fifth avenue. The bill bear tha data af ITTf and Is reported to have been printed at Charleston by P. Timothy. Tim-othy. Printed on tho face ara twa laconic warnings: "Death to counterfeit-On tha other aide of the bill U printed tho following: No, S82. "This bill entitle the bearer to receive four Spanish milled dollar or tho value thereof In gold or liver, according to aa act af th general assembly paaaed al Charleetown the twenty-third day of December, 177. "Signed, J. Wakeneld." In th comers of th bill ara th Roman symbols IV. Mrs. Ingles, widow of Edwin O. Inglee, aaid tha bill baa boon handed down through the year to her husband and finally to her. he aaid It baa boon In poaeeaalon of her deceased husband's family for more than 100 years that ah ha knowledge of. |