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Auction: 339 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC, Grand Hyatt
Lot: 1706

Outstanding Uncut Sheet of United States of America Second, Third and Fourth of Exchanges Signed by Francis Hopkinson. April 1, 1780. $36, in One Hundred and Eighty Livres Tournois. Hessler X32 E U.S. 98. No.2180 P, XZ and RT. "For interest due on Money borrowed by the United States." Black and red. Issued to William Arnold. "To the Commissioner or Commissioners of the United States of America at Paris." Signed by Francis Hopkinson as Treasurer of Loans and by Jos Clarke, Commissioner of the Continental Loan-Office in the State of Rhode Island. Very Fine. Remarkably free of the usual ink erosion in the signatures that is typical on these issues.

Francis Hopkinson signed the Declaration of Independence as one of the delegates from New Jersey. He is credited with designing the first United States flag, and he was on the committee that designed the Continental Currency.

Sold for
$3,000