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40 Dollars 'Continental Currency' - United States
| Emittent | Continental Congress of the United States |
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| Jahr | 1778 |
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| Währung | Dollar (1775-1779) |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | THE UNITED STATES Forty Dollars. This Bill entitles the Bearer to re- ceive Forty Spanish milled Dollars, or the Value thereof in Gold or Silver, ac- cording to a Resolu- tion passed by Con- gress as Philadelphia, Sept. 26th, 1778. XL DOLLARS. |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | 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. |
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Continental Currency was printed under Congressional authorization and backed by nothing more concrete than a promise of future tax redemption by the individual states — a mechanism that failed almost immediately. By 1778, the year of this issue, massive over-emission had already begun eroding public confidence, and the phrase "not worth a Continental" was entering common use. The forty-dollar denomination was one of the higher face values in circulation, which made it both a target for the British counterfeiting campaign and a denomination ordinary colonists rarely handled at face value.
Hall and Sellers, the Philadelphia printing firm of Benjamin Franklin's old Pennsylvania Gazette, used nature-printed leaf impressions as the primary anti-counterfeiting device — a technique Franklin himself had championed decades earlier. The British, flooding the colonies with forged notes to destabilize the war economy, found the botanical prints genuinely difficult to replicate convincingly.