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1 Dollar Colony of Maryland
| Issuer | Colony of Maryland |
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| Year | 1774 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | 'Tis DEATH to Counterfeit. PRINTED BY A. C. AND F. GREEN. ONE DOLLAR. Equal to 4 s. 6d. Sterling. |
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| Protection type | Nature print |
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Printed by Anne Catharine Green — one of the few female printers operating a colonial press in America — and her son Frederick, this note was among the last issued before the Revolution severed Maryland's colonial monetary system entirely. Anne had taken over the Maryland Gazette and the colony's official printing contracts after her husband Jonas died in 1767, and she held those contracts until her own death in 1775, meaning this 1774 issue was produced in the final year of her life.
The nature print border — an actual leaf or plant material inked and pressed directly onto the plate — was a Benjamin Franklin-influenced anti-counterfeiting measure widely adopted by colonial printers. T. Sparrow's engraving work for the Greens is locally significant; he was an Annapolis craftsman rather than a London-trained specialist.