1757 United States 5 Pound Note Value

The United States 5 Pound Note is a collectible note from 1757, catalogued here from 4 documented examples with its full design description and specifications. Value depends on condition, rarity and collector demand rather than metal content.

Public domain image (struck or printed before 1926). Click to enlarge.

1757 United States 5 Pound Note specifications

Series
United States Paper Money
Denomination
United States 5 Pound Note
Year
1757
Material
Paper

1757 United States 5 Pound Note inscriptions & design

Obverse

NORTH-CAROLINA / This BILL intitles the Bearer hereof to \ FIVE POUNDS, Proclamation Money, to be \ paid out of the Public Treasury, with 6 per \ Cent. Interest, from the Date hereof, to the \ Tenth Day of December next, in Pursuance \ of an Act of the General Assembly, in such \ Case made and provided. / Dated this 15th Day of decemr. 1757 / £.5 / To be accepted in \ Payment of Taxes / Pub. Trea.

Decorative borders

Reverse

Measured 1757 United States 5 Pound Note specimens

4 physically measured 1757 United States 5 Pound Note examples in our reference database. Real measured weights and die axes let you authenticate a coin against the g, mm minting standard.

Measured 1757 United States 5 Pound Note specimens
SpecimenWeightDiameterDie axisReferences
1757 United States 5 Pound Note #1---Friedberg.NC-83
1757 United States 5 Pound Note #2---Friedberg.NC-90a
1757 United States 5 Pound Note #3---Friedberg.NC-90b
1757 United States 5 Pound Note #4---Friedberg.NC-83

Specifications compiled from documented museum specimens. See our data & methodology page.