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| 裏面の説明 | The reverse is dominated by a central guilloche vignette composed of thirteen interlocking rings, each bearing the name of one of the original colonies and surrounding a central burst inscribed 'AMERICAN CONGRESS' and 'WE ARE ONE'. The denomination 'One Sixth of a Dollar' appears at the top, while the printer's imprint runs along the lower margin beneath a decorative typeset border of floral and scroll ornaments. |
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| 偽造防止技術 | Nature printing |
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The fractional Continental Currency notes of 1776 exist because the Congress needed denominations small enough for everyday transactions — the larger dollar notes were impractical for minor commerce. Hall & Sellers of Philadelphia, who also printed the Pennsylvania Gazette, produced the Continental series using a nature-printing technique pioneered in the colonies by Benjamin Franklin decades earlier: pressing actual leaves against the plate to create an inimitable texture on the reverse that counterfeiters could not easily replicate. It was a genuinely clever anti-forgery measure for the period.
Continental Currency suffered catastrophic depreciation by 1779, giving rise to the expression "not worth a Continental." The fractional denominations became functionally useless fastest, which is partly why surviving circulated examples in any condition are harder to find than the dollar values.