Ohio River Bank $20 bank note

paper currency

CURRENCY - PAPER MONEY
Ohio River Bank
USA, OH, Marietta
1838-06-04
paper
overall: 3 x 7 in.

Paper currency; Ohio River Bank $20 bank note, June 4, 1838, serial number 3729; obverse: black and red on white with vignette at top depicting steamboat; oval portrait at right of George Washington, depiction of female figure at left, appears to be classical goddess Athena holding American flag, dog head at bottom; reverse is blank; printed at top "20 STATE OF OHIO XX/ Will Pay/ To Bearer TWENTY DOLLARS On Demand/ No. [handwritten] 3729 Marietta, O., June 4, 18 [handwritten] 38/ [signature indecipherable] Cash. [signature indecipherable] Pres."

2002.58.12