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Title	Republic of Texas $100.00 (one hundred dollars) ''redback'' note
County of Origin	Travis County
Town of Issue	Austin
Currency Type	'Redback''
Denomination	$100.00
Bank Issuer	Republic of Texas
Imprint	Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson. New Orleans.; Rawdon, Wright & Hatch New-York.; Designed, Drawn & Engd. by Freeman Rawdon
Date Issued	Jan 1 1840
Decade	1840-1849
Vignette	(L) Train with early steam locomotive. (C) Moneta receiving coins from Mercury. (R) Brigantine with Lone Star ensign. 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 a steam locomotive with bales in the foreground decorates the center of the left border of the note; a vignette of a brigantine decorates the center of the right border. The number ''100'' is printed in the four corners of the note within a decorative design. In the upper-center vignette of the note Mercury is giving a seated Moneta coins; a griffin is standing on a strongbox to her right, and a compass and caduceus are propped on the ground to her left. The Roman numeral ''C'' is printed within decorative roundels to the left and right of the center vignette. The abbreviation ''No.'' appears towards the upper-left corner of the note; the number ''1292'' is handwritten opposite it towards the upper-right corner. The plate designation ''C'' 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-8.
Rarity	R.1
Signatures	Ja. H Starr Secy. Treasy.; Mirabeau B Lamar Prest.
Dimensions	7.9 x 18.8 cm.
Bibliographic References	Medlar, p. 6 no. 28; Criswell, A-8.
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	TravisAustin0000074_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	0000074r.tif; 0000074v.tif
Scan Path Number	Travis\Austin\0000074r
Rowe Catalog Number	28.02
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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