40 Dollars 'Continental Currency' - United States

Issuer	Continental Congress of the United States
Year	1778
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Value	40 Dollars
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Reverse description	The central field is occupied by a large nature-printed vignette of a thistle or similarly lobed leaf plant, rendered directly from an actual botanical specimen pressed onto the plate — a distinctive anti-counterfeiting technique employed by Benjamin Franklin and continued by Hall and Sellers — enclosed within a double-ruled typographic border with foliate corner ornaments. The denomination Forty DOLLARS is set in decorative letterpress script at the head of the note, and the printer's imprint appears at the foot. The overall printing surface retains the characteristic warm tan tone of the period rag paper stock.
Reverse lettering	¶ Forty DOLLARS. ¶ Printed by Hall and Sellers. 1778.
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Protection description	Botanical nature print on reverse produced by pressing an actual plant specimen onto the printing plate, creating a unique and nearly impossible to counterfeit impression — an anti-forgery method pioneered by Benjamin Franklin and standard on Continental Currency issues.
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