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40 Shillings Colony of Connecticut
| Issuer | Colony of Connecticut |
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| Year | 1775 |
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| Value | 40 Shillings = 2 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE NATIONALE Bruxelles, le 6 Aôut 1906. 50 50 CINQUANTE FRANCS PAYABLE À VUE LA LOI PUNIT LE CONTREFACTEUR DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS. H. HENDRICKX DEL. INV. ALBERT DOMS SC. (Translation: National Bank Brussels, August 6th., 1906. Fifty Francs Payable on sight The law punishes the counterfeitor forced labor.) |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONALE BANK 50 BRUSSEL 50 VIJFTIG FRANKEN BETAALBAAR OP ZICHT H. HENDRICKX DEL. INV. ALBERT DOMS SC (Translation: National Bank Brussels Fifty Francs Payable at sight) |
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Connecticut's colonial legislature authorized this emission in June 1775, less than two months after the battles at Lexington and Concord. The timing was not coincidental — the colony needed hard currency to fund militia mobilization, and paper was the only practical answer given the near-total disappearance of specie from circulation.
The nature print border, produced by pressing actual leaves against the plate, was Benjamin Franklin's anti-counterfeiting innovation, widely adopted across the colonial emissions. Each impression is botanically unique, which made forgery genuinely difficult for the period.