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Continental Currency "Dollar" of 1776: Introduction
The Continental Currency "Dollar" of 1776
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Continental Currency 1775-1779
Paper money from the Revolutionary period was printed with copper plates and printed on Irish linen. Denominations range from 1/6th dollar to 80 dollars.
Continental Currency - These were banknotes issued during thr American Revolution from 1775 to 1779 by the Continental Congress. The expression "Not worth a Continental" comes from the fact that the currency rapidly lost its value during the war.
Continental currency: Paper money issued by the authority of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War. See also currency.
Continental dollar: A dollar-sized pattern struck in 1776 as a proposed coinage.
Continental Currency
See also Continental currency
In 1775, the United States and the individual states began issuing "Continental Currency" denominated in Spanish dollars and (for the issues of the states) the £sd currencies of the states.
Continental currency
In coin collecting terms paper money issued by the authority of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War. See also currency.
Continental dollar
A dollar-sized pattern struck in 1776 as a proposed coinage.
The endless chain device deliberately echoes the reverses of Continental notes of February 1776, the 1776 Continental Currency tin alloy penny, and the 1787 Fugio coppers.
The July 1776 through September 1778 series of Continental Currency printed by Franklin's old firm of Hall & Sellers omitted the one-dollar bill, and New York State's August 1776 currency series also skips over this then-handy denomination.
The United States government was not off to a good start with its Continental Currency, issued to finance the Revolution, which was soon repudiated and not worth the paper it was printed on, ...
Round this is the legend CONTINENTAL CURRENCY 1776. The reverse is devoted to a series of linked circles, each bearing the name of a state and in the centre 1S the motto AMERICAN CONGRESS WE ARE ONE.
This same device had previously been used on Continental Currency to signify the common, shared cause of the 13 rebellious colonies.
Citizen payments to each other were made in this depreciating paper. U.S. Citizens, who received payment by Congress with "Continental Currency", were unable to satisfy their foreign debts as Europeans, in many cases, flat out refused the U.S.
 See also: Continental, Currency, Coin, Dollar, Colonial
  
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