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Title	Republic of Texas $50 (fifty dollars) ''redback'' note
County of Origin	Travis County
Town of Issue	Austin
Currency Type	'Redback''
Denomination	$50.00
Bank Issuer	Republic of Texas
Imprint	Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson. New Orleans.; Rawdon, Wright & Hatch New-York.
Date Issued	Feby 1 1841
Decade	1840-1849
Vignette	(L) Nude Venus standing. (C) Steamship (three-mast side-wheeler) and sailing ship (brig). (R) Bust of Stephen F. Austin. Lower center: Lone Star seal.
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. A vignette of Venus rising from the water appears in the upper-left corner of the note; sea creatures surround her. A vignette of a three-mast side-wheeler is printed towards the upper-right center of the note; a brig appears in the background. The number ''50'' is printed to the left of this vignette. A bust of Stephen Fuller Austin is printed in the center of the right border of the note; the number ''50'' is printed above and below the portrait. The number ''50'' is printed in the lower-left corner. The abbreviation ''No.'' appears towards the upper-left corner of the note; the number ''4391'' is handwritten opposite it. The plate designation ''A'' appears towards the upper-right corner of the note. A seal of the Republic of Texas appears along the lower-center edge of the note. The month, day and last two digits of the years are handwritten; the first two digits of the year, 18, are printed. The note is signed on the recto by James Harper Starr, Secretary of the Treasury, and Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, President. Starr, a Connecticut native, was a physician, secretary of the treasury during the Republic, president of The General Land Office's board of land commissioners, land agent, and later the founder of one of the first banks in Texas (TSHA). 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-7.
Rarity	R.1
Signatures	Ja H Starr Secy. Treasy.; Mirabeau B Lamar Prest.
Dimensions	7.8 x 18.3 cm.
Bibliographic References	Medlar, p. 6, no. 27; Criswell, A-7.
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	TravisAustin0000072_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	0000072r.tif; 0000072v.tif
Scan Path Number	Travis\Austin\0000072r
Rowe Catalog Number	27.02
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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