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Colonial currency played a crucial role in the economic development of British America and helped finance military campaigns, public projects, and daily commerce before the establishment of a unified national monetary system following the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColonial currency\u003c\/strong\u003e was issued by individual regional governments before and during the Revolution using British denominations (pounds, shillings, and pence)\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eContinental currency\u003c\/strong\u003e was issued nationwide by the Continental Congress starting in 1775 in new dollar units to fund the Revolutionary War, ultimately collapsing in value and inspiring the phrase \"not worth a Continental\".\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"yhAwj\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"otQkpb\" role=\"heading\"\u003eKey Differences ...\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eIssuing Authority:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colonial money was printed or authorized by separate local colonial governments (like Massachusetts or Pennsylvania). Continental money was authorized by the unified Continental Congress.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eTime Period:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colonial currency dates from 1690 through the start of the Revolution. Continental currency was strictly issued between 1775 and 1779 during the war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eDenominations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colonial notes used traditional British units like pounds, shillings, and pence, alongside foreign coin values. Continental notes were denominated explicitly in Spanish-style decimal or fractional \u003cstrong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003edollars\u003c\/strong\u003e (ranging from $1\/6 to $80).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\"\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eBacking and Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e Both suffered from inflation due to over-printing, but Continentals had zero backing in gold, silver, or stable tax power at first, making their total collapse famous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"connecticut-continental-currency-woodworth","title":"Connecticut Continental Currency  Woodworth","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis document is a 1782 Connecticut Treasury Office pay order, also known as a promissory note or bond, issued to a soldier for service in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 1\/2 inch tear bottom center upward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Details of the Document\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecipient: Issued to Mr. Ebenr. 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Please examine photographs carefully for your own assessment of condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine Revolutionary War-era artifact printed by one of the most important printers in American history and a desirable addition to any colonial currency, early Americana, or Declaration of Independence-related collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44601064685646,"sku":"EB-327224135697","price":485.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/8155\/9630\/files\/57_1096404d-d587-444f-9bbd-5ec8d1fc25ee.jpg?v=1792409338"},{"product_id":"1780-rhode-island-three-dollar-colonial-currency-historic-facsimile","title":"1780 Rhode Island Three Dollar Colonial Currency — Historic Facsimile","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRhode Island \u0026amp; Providence Plantations — Three Dollars — July 2, 1780\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn attractive historic reproduction of one of Rhode Island's Revolutionary War-era currency issues, depicting the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree Dollar note of July 2, 1780\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, issued by the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations and guaranteed by the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe original note was printed by the celebrated Philadelphia printers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHall \u0026amp; Sellers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and promised payment of three Spanish milled dollars, with interest at five percent per annum. 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Its designs incorporate several features intended to discourage counterfeiting, including an intricate nature-print leaf impression associated with Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering security-printing work. The reverse also bears the dramatic colonial warning:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“To Counterfeit is DEATH.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe note displays the Pennsylvania or Penn family arms, a royal portrait, ornamental borders and the twenty-shillings denomination. The surviving serial number appears to read \u003cstrong\u003eNo. 615\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe lot consists of what appear to be the \u003cstrong\u003eseparated obverse and reverse faces of a single original note\u003c\/strong\u003e. Each piece is blank on its opposite side, indicating that the note was likely split into two layers during an early mounting, removal or conservation procedure. 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Offered as an unusual study example of a scarce Franklin-printed Pennsylvania colonial note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 1, 1760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColony:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDenomination:\u003c\/strong\u003e Twenty Shillings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinter:\u003c\/strong\u003e Benjamin Franklin and David Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalog number:\u003c\/strong\u003e Friedberg PA-112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Two separated faces; heavily worn, faded and toned; sold as pictured\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44601210863694,"sku":"EB-52902256345370","price":595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/8155\/9630\/files\/57_36f45afd-5f15-428a-94c1-4700e9f4f4e2.jpg?v=1792409918"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-printed-pennsylvania-colonial-currency-1757-fifteen","title":"Benjamin Franklin–Printed Pennsylvania Colonial Currency, 1757 — Fifteen","description":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eAn exceptionally early example of American colonial paper money printed by \u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Franklin and his partner David Hall\u003c\/strong\u003e nearly twenty years before the Declaration of Independence.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThese two mounted pieces display the face and reverse designs of Pennsylvania’s \u003cstrong\u003eJuly 1, 1757 fifteen-shillings currency issue\u003c\/strong\u003e, cataloged as \u003cstrong\u003eFriedberg PA-87\u003c\/strong\u003e. Authorized during the reign of King George II, these bills circulated in colonial Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe face displays the denomination “FIFTEEN SHILLINGS,” Pennsylvania legal-tender language, three crown symbols, the Penn family arms and remnants of the handwritten serial number and signatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe reverse incorporates an elaborate nature-print leaf—one of Benjamin Franklin’s most ingenious anti-counterfeiting devices. The surviving text includes the memorable warning \u003cstrong\u003e“To Counterfeit is Death”\u003c\/strong\u003e and the printer’s imprint \u003cstrong\u003e“Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eFranklin created nature prints by taking impressions from actual leaves, capturing their complicated vein structures in extraordinary detail. These virtually unique patterns made the notes much harder for eighteenth-century counterfeiters to reproduce.C\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eonsiderable toning, fading, surface abrasion, fold separation, edge losses and mounting residue. Nevertheless, they remain identifiable examples of an important and scarce Franklin-printed colonial currency issue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColony:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 1, 1757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDenomination:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fifteen Shillings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinters:\u003c\/strong\u003e Benjamin Franklin and David Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalog number:\u003c\/strong\u003e Friedberg PA-87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Poor and heavily impaired; mounted and backed as pictured\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44601211879502,"sku":"EB-52902333808922","price":895.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/8155\/9630\/files\/57_8d1304d5-747a-4a70-89e6-ad9fe20b9c06.jpg?v=1792409922"},{"product_id":"1771-connecticut-two-shillings-sixpence-timothy-green-colonial-currency","title":"1771 Connecticut Two Shillings \u0026 Sixpence—Timothy Green—Colonial Currency","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConnecticut colonial bill of credit dated October 10, 1771, denominated two shillings and sixpence in lawful money. Printed in New London by Timothy Green, whose name and the year appear on the reverse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe face features Connecticut’s three-vine seal, ornamental borders, and manuscript committee signatures, including a clearly legible Elisha Williams signature. Its printed obligation promises repayment by October 10, 1773. The reverse preserves an additional red manuscript registration endorsement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIssued five years before American independence, this note offers a tangible connection to the financial administration and printing traditions of colonial Connecticut.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFriedberg CT-164. Cut canceled, with a diagonal redemption incision across the central design. Circulated, with folds, toning, faded portions of the manuscript ink, edge nicks and splits, and small losses. The date, denomination, printer’s imprint, and principal signature remain readable. Ungraded; offered as pictured.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44601777881166,"sku":"EB-53010004148506","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/8155\/9630\/files\/57_83a9054d-3b29-49db-92c5-30b0c030db58.jpg?v=1792410153"},{"product_id":"1773-pennsylvania-two-shilling-note-hall-sellers-colonial-currency","title":"1773 Pennsylvania Two-Shilling Note—Hall \u0026 Sellers—Colonial Currency","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePennsylvania colonial currency note dated October 1, 1773, denominated two shillings and printed by Hall and Sellers of Philadelphia. Issued less than three years before the Declaration of Independence, the note preserves the language of royal government through its reference to King George III.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe face features Pennsylvania’s arms, ornamental borders, and prominent manuscript signatures appearing to be those of Abel Evans and Joseph Allen. The reverse displays a rain-and-rainbow scene above cultivated land, together with the Hall and Sellers imprint and the anti-counterfeiting warning, “To Counterfeit is DEATH.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCatalog reference: Friedberg PA-164. Circulated, with folds, toning, surface wear, localized staining, faded red printing, and small edge splits. The denomination, date, and principal signatures remain readily visible. Ungraded; offered as pictured.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn accessible example of colonial American paper money from the years immediately preceding independence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44601778864206,"sku":"EB-53009855349018","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/8155\/9630\/files\/57_ea93b482-660d-40fb-a0a9-586e18af0684.jpg?v=1792410156"},{"product_id":"1759-delaware-fifteen-shilling-note-printed-by-benjamin-franklin-david-hall-separated-paper-layers","title":"1759 Delaware Fifteen-Shilling Note — Printed by Benjamin Franklin \u0026 David Hall — Separated Paper Layers","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJune 1, 1759. 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