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An early example of a handwritten £3 Colonial banknote from the Province of North Carolina, dated 27 November 1729. The North Carolina pound was the province's currency until 1793, though valued at less than the co-circulating British pound.Banknote: Province of North Carolina; image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution