Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
500 Dollars Certificate of Deposit
| Issuer | Department of Finance, Hawaiian Islands |
|---|---|
| Year | 1879 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 500 Dollars |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Multicolor intaglio-printed note with a portrait vignette of King Kalakaua at left, flanked by a central oval vignette of a steam locomotive and two smaller maritime vignettes showing sailing vessels at sea. At far right, a figure of a native Hawaiian harvesting sugarcane forms a fourth vignette. The large denomination numeral '500' appears in orange at lower left and right corners, with the title 'HAWAIIAN ISLANDS' in bold letters across the upper portion beneath an orange guilloche underprint. Signature lines for the Minister of Finance and Director of Public Accounts appear at the lower margin. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Uniformly printed in brown, the reverse is dominated by an intricate lathe-work guilloche design surrounding a central vignette of the Royal Coat of Arms of Hawaii set within an ornate oval frame. The denomination '500' appears in guilloched roundels at the left and right, with decorative rosette and shell motifs filling the corners. The inscriptions 'HAWAIIAN TREASURY' arc across the top and 'CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT' runs along the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | HAWAIIAN TREASURY CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments | Log in to see details |