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3 Dollars - State of New York Replica
| Issuer | State of New York |
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| Year | 1776 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette displays a heraldic shield divided into quarters, bearing the Ten Commandments tablets and a diagonal sword, enclosed in an ornate cartouche with the motto LEX REGIT ARMA TUENTUR. Denomination THREE DOLLARS appears in letterpress on both vertical side margins, with decorative guilloche borders at top and bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Right side carries the New York colonial arms vignette with a colonist and a Native American as supporters flanking a shield, surmounted by a crown. The main text panel in letterpress occupies the left two-thirds of the note, with serial number at upper right and the warning 'Tis Death to counterfeit at lower right. |
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Samuel Loudon was a New York printer and newspaper publisher — he founded the New York Packet in 1776 — whose press was pressed into service for colonial currency alongside his other wartime work. The Continental and state paper money programs of that year operated under constant logistical strain, with printers recruited wherever reliable presses could be found.
This is a modern replica. No surviving 1776 New York emission should be assumed genuine without provenance and expert examination, as reproductions of colonial-era American currency have circulated in the collector market for decades.