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Letterpress-printed note on plain paper with a decorative typeset border enclosing the full-face text panel. The denomination "TWO DOLLARS" appears in a bold header register at the top, followed by the bearer clause in mixed roman and italic type referencing the Convention of Maryland at Annapolis, dated the Fourteenth Day of August, 1776. The lower portion bears multiple handwritten ink signatures of authorizing officials, a characteristic anti-counterfeiting measure of colonial American currency. |
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The reverse is entirely typeset with a dense ornamental border of repeating floral and cross devices enclosing an inner frame of star and lozenge ornaments. A large circular nature-print vignette occupies the center field, serving as an anti-counterfeiting device. The place of issue "ANNAPOLIS" runs vertically along the left inner border, with the printer's imprint "Printed by F. GREEN" along the right; the sterling equivalent "Equal to Nine Shillings Sterling" appears in italic type at the foot. |
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Maryland's Revolutionary-era notes were printed by Frederick Green at the Maryland Gazette office in Annapolis, making them among the relatively few colonial issues where the press location and printer are both firmly documented. Green had taken over the Gazette from his mother Anne Catherine Green, who had run it since 1767 — one of the few women operating a colonial press at that scale.
The nature print border — made by pressing actual leaves against the plate to create an inimitable organic pattern — was a direct borrowing from Benjamin Franklin's anti-counterfeiting technique developed in Philadelphia during the 1730s. No two leaf impressions are identical, which was the point.
Maryland authorized multiple emissions in 1776; this denomination falls within the issue of July 1776, authorized by the Convention rather than the General Assembly.