Name/Title
Two shilling and eight penceEntry/Object ID
FIC2021.7Scope and Content
1/3 Spanish milled dollar
New York, March 5, 1776
Presented to Bedford Historical Society by John M. Mitchell, Greenwich Conn.
Front Reads:
Original Two Shilling and Eight Pence
New York Currency
One Third of a Dollar
New York:
Printed by Samuel ? in the year M.DCC.LXXYI.
Back Reads:
One third of a dollar
This Bill fhall pre? curent in all payments in the colony, for two shillings eight pence, (being equal to one third of a Spanish Milled Dollar) or the value therof in gold or silver; according to the Refolution of the Provincia Congrefs of New-York, on the fifth Day of March, 1776.
2/8.
Signed "Winter"