Two shilling and eight pence

Name/Title

Two shilling and eight pence

Entry/Object ID

FIC2021.7

Scope 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"