1890s Bliss Business College Currency 50 Cents Note - Keene, NH - Uncirculated (UNC) - Bliss Business College Fifty Cents Trade Currency

This listing is for the photographed 1890s No Date Keene NH Bliss Business College Fractional 50 Cents Trade Currency Note. This note was issued without a specific date printed, for the Bliss Business College in Keene, New Hampshire. Uncirculated (UNC) grade/condition, no folds or signs of circulation, crisp note. Rare surviving "college currency" notes from their early usage in the late 19th century. Great rarer find with an incredibly interesting history!

Bliss Business College was established in the city of Keene, New Hampshire by brothers Charles S. Bliss and F. H. Bliss in 1897. The school was one of many business schools established by the Bliss family during this period across the Eastern US. The school in Keene officially opened their doors in September, taking over the top floor of the Cheshire House Block annex on Roxbury St. They had a total of 44 students in attendance when the school first opened. All schools owned and operated by the Bliss family across the country followed a relatively similar curriculum of teaching bookkeeping, banking, arithmetic, and several other skills needed for roles in the business industry at the time. These notes, known as college currency, were printed by schools to be issued to students as part of their education, as these notes would be used to practice dealing money through facilitating fake transactions with professors and other students, all of which took place in the main hall of the college, which is featured on the larger denomination notes for this college. In 1900 Harry C. Tiffin took over the school, changing its name from the Bliss Business College to the Keene Business College, and later changed it again to Tiffin's Business Institute before it officially closed in 1923. 

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1890s N.D. Bliss Business College Currency 50 Cents Note - Keene, NH - Uncirculated (UNC) - Bliss Business College Fifty Cents Trade Currency