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5 Pence Colony of Connecticut
| Issuer | Colony of Connecticut |
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| Year | 1777 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse lettering | 5d. No. 5d. FIVE PENCE. By Order of the General Assembly at Hartford,— Oct. 11, 1777. 5d. 5d. Commi |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting the plain surface of the coarse grey rag paper stock, consistent with Colonial-era fractional currency practice of leaving the back blank. |
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Connecticut's 1777 emission was authorized by the General Assembly to fund the colony's — by then, state's — contribution to the Revolutionary War effort. The 5 Pence denomination was among the smallest issued in this series, intended for petty transactions at a moment when metal coinage had largely vanished from circulation as hoarding intensified.
Printed in Hartford by Timothy Green, these notes carried elaborate nature-print leaf borders, a technique used across colonial Connecticut issues as a counterfeit deterrent. Green had held the colony's printing contract for decades.