File:Bank check W 3series Rev stamps.jpg

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English: Image of promissory note dated April 10 1872, w/ three revenue stamps from the first three series respectively
First Issue revenue stamps remained valid after the Second and Third Issues were produced, and this promissory note is franked with an example of each. The amount of the three stamps combined pay the $2.25 tax duty of five cents per hundred dollars on a $4,500 promissory note, was the rate in 1872.
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Source United States Government; Dept. Internal Revenue
Author Government commissioned printing by Butler & Carpenter of Philadelphia; Restoration and imaging by Gwillhickers
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Stamps (same types, not actual) found on this promissory note / bank check :

1-dollar from first issue
25-cent from second issue
1-dollar from third issue

Other examples of revenue stamps on bank checks

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.
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