1799 Promissory Note - Embossed 4 Cent Revenue - Americana

4 cents promissory note. "Embossed" revenue. Embossing and debossing are the processes of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs in paper and other materials. An embossed pattern is raised against the background, while a debossed pattern is sunken into the surface of the material but might protrude somewhat on the reverse side. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_embossing

A promissory note, sometimes referred to as a note payable, is a legal instrument (more particularly, a financing instrument and a debt instrument), in which one party (the maker or issuer) promises in writing to pay a determinate sum of money to the other (the payee), either at a fixed or determinable future time or on demand of the payee, under specific terms and conditions. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promissory_note