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Colonial Currency - Specifically the paper money issues in North America while under the rule of Great Britain prior to the Revolution, from 1690 to 1774.
Colonial currency: British sterling notes issued in North America from 1760 to the American Revolution.
We hope to add images scanned from photographs or slides, for all available varieties of colonial coinage (and currencies for the companion Colonial Currency site).
Then get him a piece of colonial currency! To keep people from making counterfeits (fakes), each real note was hand signed by one or more people - important people whose signatures other merchants would recognize.
This variety could include pre US colonial currency, obsolete money from the 1800s, currency from the Confederate States of America, and souvenir cards of older money that's too rare to actually find and purchase.
Butlin as this seems to be one of the best sources for information on colonial currency.
I know of one person who began by collecting error notes of small size modern currency and then switched to Colonial currency! While these two types of collections are very different they both can be great fun! ...
 See also: Colonial, Currency, Coin, Collection, Dollar
  
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