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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2833809, member: 83956&quot;]Hi Folks,</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m an ancients collector, but I need help right now with a reference to early American money. My question is not necessarily about coinage per se, so please pardon the tangential query. But I figure this is probably an easy question for this board.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am transcribing a Kentucky marriage license from 1836 that refers to a “full sum of L 50, current money” to be put up as some kind of financial bond for the marriage. (Still not sure of the legalities here.) So what does the L mean? What denomination is that? What kind of money would circulate in 1836 in western Kentucky? Here’s the full license:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>KNOW all men by these presents, that we [?] Boucher &amp; [?] Richardson are held &amp; firmly bound, unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the just &amp; full sum of L 50, current money, and for, the payment whereof we bind ourselves our heirs &amp; c, jointly &amp; severally, firmly by these presents, signed &amp; delivered this 4th day of July, 1836. THE CONDITION of the above Obligation is such, that if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the marriage of the above bound [Jackson] Boucher &amp; Miss Friday Richardson then this obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]668641[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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