A plant leaf. This process of illustrating banknotes from a real leaf was developed by Benjamin Franklin to discourage counterfeiting.
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Obverse lettering
Eighteen PENCE
THIS Bill of ONE SHILLING and SIX-PENCE
Proclamation, is emitted by a Law of the Colony of
New-Jersey, passed in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of
his Majesty King George the Third. Dated March 25, 1776.
Eighteen pence.
Reverse lettering
Eighteen Pence.
To counterfeit is Death.
Burlington in NEW JERSEY
Printed by Isaac Collins, 1776.
