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6 Shillings Colony of New Jersey

Features

Issuer Province of New Jersey (United States (pre-federal and private/territorial))
King George III (1760-1783)
Type Standard circulation banknotes
Year 1776
Value 6 Shillings (3⁄10)
Currency Pound
Composition Paper
Size 102 × 57 mm
Shape Rectangular (hand cut)
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
557600
References P# S1821
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

British coat of arms in red ink to lower left, six crowns and half a sun in black ink lower centre, date, denomination and signatures in black ink lower right.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SIX SHILLINGS. No.
THIS Bill of SIX SHILLINGS Proclamation, is emitted by a Law of the Colony of New-Jerſey, passed in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King GEORGE the Third.
Dated MARCH 25, 1776

Reverse

Line of Zodiac symbols at top, leaf in centre, line of swirls along sides, line of crowns beneath leaf, flower on either end of crown row.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SIX SHILLINGS.
To Counterfeit is Death.
Burlington in NEW-JERSEY,
Printed by ISAAC COLLINS, 1776.

Watermark

NEW JERSEY

Comments

Banknote of the Colony of New Jersey, early American paper currency issued under authority of King George III.


Printer: Isaac Collins.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC References
1776-Mar-25  P# S1821a
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).
Plate letter A
1776-Mar-25  P# S1821b
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).
Plate letter B

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