6 Shillings Colony of New Jersey

One of the last issues from New Jersey before independence formally severed the colonial currency framework, this note was authorized under the provincial assembly in January 1776. Isaac Collins, a Quaker printer based in Burlington, produced the series — he is better remembered as the founder of the New-Jersey Gazette, but his work for the colonial treasury was a significant commercial operation in its own right.

The nature print border — taken from actual leaf impressions pressed directly into the printing matrix — was a Benjamin Franklin-era anti-counterfeiting device, crude by later standards but effective enough given the equipment available to forgers at the time. The watermark adds a second layer, unusual for a colonial issue of this denomination.