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Title	Republic of Texas $10.00 (ten dollars) ''redback'' note
County of Origin	Travis County
Town of Issue	Austin
Currency Type	'Redback''
Denomination	$10.00
Bank Issuer	Republic of Texas
Imprint	Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson. New Orleans.; Rawdon, Wright & Hatch, New-York.; Drawn and Engraved by Geo. W. Hatch.
Date Issued	May 23 1839
Decade	1830-1839
Vignette	(L) Zeus is seated holding a scepter in his left hand and hurling a thunderbolt with his right; at his foot is a shield with ''E Pluribus Unum'' printed below it. (C) Bust portrait of a maiden emerging from the sea. (R) Three-mast sailing ship with a Texas lone star naval ensign flying from the stern sails past a classical building with a United States flag. A seal of the Republic of Texas appears along the bottom edge of the note.
Notes	This ''redback'' note was issued in Austin by the Republic of Texas. Redbacks were issued from late 1839 until 1842. The most prolific issue of Texas money, redbacks were reissued and stamped as such, thus the total number issued is not known. Redbacks were named for the red ink used on their versos. Lines border each edge of the note. In the upper-left corner of the note is a vignette of Zeus seated and holding a scepter in his left hand and hurling a thunderbolt with his right; at his foot is an eagle and a shield with ''E Pluribus Unum'' printed below it. A smaller vignette of a maiden emerging from the sea is printed along the upper-center of the note; medallions with the number ''10'' printed within them appear to the left and right of the vignette. A vignette of a three-mast sailing ship with a Lone Star naval ensign flying from the stern appears along the center of the right edge of the note; the ship is sailing past a classical building with a United States flag. The phrase ''Receivable for all Government dues.'' is printed in the upper-left corner; the word ''TEN'' is printed in the upper-right corner. The Roman numeral ''X'' is printed in the lower-left and lower-right corners. A seal of the Republic of Texas appears along the lower-center edge of the note. The abbreviation ''No.'' appears towards the upper-right corner; the number ''656'' is handwritten below it. The plate designation ''A'' appears above the note number. The month, day and last two digits of the year are handwritten; the first two digits of the year, 18, are printed. The note is signed on the recto by James Webb, acting Secretary of the Treasury, and Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, President. Webb, a native of Virginia, was a judge, politician, and legislator (TSHA). During the Republic years, Webb was secretary of the treasury, secretary of state, attorney general, a senator during several congresses, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee (Ibid.) He later served as a United States district judge, secretary of state (1849-1851), and judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District (Ibid.). Lamar was a solider, the second president of the Republic, a representative of Nueces and San Patricio counties in the Second Texas Legislature, and the United States minister to Nicaragua and Costa Rica beginning in 1857 (TSHA). Two ornate designs printed in red ink comprise the left and right borders of the note's verso; a five-pointed star and the letters of the word ''TEXAS'' are printed in red ink in-between the two designs. CR: A-5.
Rarity	R.1
Signatures	James Webb actg Secy. Treasy.; Mirabeau B Lamar Prest.
Dimensions	7.7 x 18.4 cm.
Bibliographic References	Medlar, p. 6, no. 25; Criswell, A-5.
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Process	Digitization process: scanned as 1200 ppi, 16-bits per channel, RGB.tif; derivative created from recto and verso and resized as 3000 pixels on the long edge, 8-bits per channel RGB.jpg.
Upload File Name	TravisAustin0000066_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	0000066r.tif; 0000066v.tif
Scan Path Number	Travis\Austin\0000066r
Rowe Catalog Number	25.01
Digital Collection	Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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