Name/Title
Continental Currency, Eight Dollars, 1776. An 1876 Reproduction.Entry/Object ID
AM9999.166.580Scope and Content
Continental Currency, Eight Dollars, 1776. An 1876 Reproduction.
The reproduction was for a YMCA benefit for a reading room in Springfield, MA. Original Eight Dollar Continental Currency had a seal of a Harp with 13 strings, and the Fifty later had a more elaborate step pyramid with a small triangle above the door, and the words Perrenis, which means Everlasting.
Front
Printed around the left and right side, Eight VIII. Dollars, Continental Currency, Eight Dollars; top and bottom, VIII. Dollars, The United Colonies, VIII. Eight Dollars. Seal is of a step pyramid with the wording Majora-Minoribus-Consonant, which means The Larger are in harmony with the smaller. Text in the center reads This Bill entitles the Bearer to receive Eight Spanish milled Dollars, or the Value thereof in Gold or Silver, according to a Resolution of Congress, passed as Philadelphia February 17, 1776.
Signed on front, no note number.
Reverse
Print reads Eight Dollars, and Philadelphia, Printed by Hall & Sellers. 1776. Image of a henebit leaf and two buttercup leaves.Lexicon
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Money during the Revolutionary War, Continental Currency, Revolutionary War
