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Continental Bank $5

providence continental bank

August 31, 1861. Durand 1236, Haxby RI-280 G8b, Bowers W-RI-920-005-G040a

Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co, engravers. With ABCo monogram, at left.

Signatures of Albert G. Durfee, cashier, and Rhodes B. Chapman, president.

Detail of vignette.

The central vignette shows the 1781 surrender of British General Charles Cornwallis to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, an event that brought the American Revolutionary War to a close.

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