File:Kingdom of England Exchequer note-5 Pounds (1697).jpg
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current | 15:31, 15 January 2017 | 4,500 × 3,270 (5.48 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | A 5 pound interest-bearing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchequer" class="extiw" title="w:Exchequer">Exchequer</a> note dated 6 August 1697. These bills were first introduced one year earlier (1696) and paid interest for loans made to the government.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/e/exchequer_bill_for_%C2%A3100.aspx">[1]</a> This note was issued during the reign of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:William III of England">William III</a>, less than a decade after England’s 1689 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689" class="extiw" title="w:Bill of Rights 1689">Bill of Rights</a> was adopted, and a decade before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" class="extiw" title="w:Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a> was formed. |
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