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18 Pence Colony of New Jersey
| Issuer | Colony of New Jersey |
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| Year | 1776 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a decorative calligraphic header reading 'One Shilling and Six Pence' with '1S6' at right, enclosed within an ornate letterpress border, with the denomination 'Eighteen PENCE' printed in red ink at the top. The authorizing text in mixed roman and italic typefaces cites the Colony of New-Jersey and the reign of King George the Third, dated March 25, 1776. At lower left, a red-ink vignette of the New Jersey Coat of Arms shows two heraldic supporters flanking a crowned shield, with two manuscript signatures appearing to the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Eighteen Pence. To counterfeit is Death. Burlington in NEW JERSEY Printed by Isaac Collins, 1776. |
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New Jersey's 1776 emission was authorized by the Provincial Congress in January of that year, one of the last acts of the colonial legislature before the full machinery of revolution took over. Isaac Collins, the official printer to the colony and a committed Quaker, produced the series from his Burlington shop — a curious biographical footnote given that his religious convictions would later make his continued support for the war effort complicated.
The nature print border — made from actual leaf impressions pressed directly into the printing plate — was a Ben Franklin-era anti-counterfeiting technique. Difficult to replicate with period engraving tools, it remained in use on American colonial paper long after Franklin first promoted it in the 1730s.