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Paper money: CM.8-2024

Object information

Current Location: Exhibition: Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition (Mellon Gallery): wall case

Maker(s)

Issuer: Bank of Jamaica
Designer: De la Rue
Printer: De la Rue

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Description

Five Hundred Dollars, New Design UNC banknote featuring imagined portraits of Nanny of the Maroons (c. 1686–1733) and Samuel Sharpe (1801–1832). No. AG495754. Uncirculated.

Notes

History note: Online seller, from whom purchase by the donor in 2023

Measurements and weight

Height: 68 mm
Width: 145 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2024) by Avery, Victoria

Dating

21st Century
Production date: AD 2022 : Issued 10.06.2022

Materials used in production

Polymer

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Identification numbers

Accession number: CM.8-2024
Primary reference Number: 317557
Schmidt: no. 98
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 8 August 2024 Updated: Thursday 13 February 2025 Last processed: Saturday 22 March 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Coins and Medals

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