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Massachusetts. Finance. Currency, Colonial Period.
**HT.90a.534
Mournful lamentation, A, for the sad and deplorable death of Mr. Old Tenor, a native of New-England, who, after a long confinement, by a deep and mortal wound which he received above twelve months before, expired on the 31st day of March, 1750. [Verse.]
— Broadside. Sold at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston. [1750.] Size, 1332 X 8 inches,
Old tenor was a form of paper currency in Massachusetts.
 
This card was printed at the Boston Public Library, April 7, 1914. K1836 — Paper money.—Broadsides. — Old tenor.—Massachusetts. Fin. Curr.