Connecticut Currency
June 1, 1780
An emission of £50,000 in bills of credit as Treasury Notes payable by March 1, 1784 with 5% interest in Spanish milled dollars at the rate of 6s per milled dollar, or silver or gold coin equivalent. Printed in New London by Timothy Green II with engraved borders and typeset text. (This Green is the first cousin once removed of Timothy Green Jr., who had printed currency for Connecticut until his death on October 3, 1763). The front of each note shows the seal of the colony with three grape vines and a hand that points to the right on some denominations and to the left on others. The scroll carries the abbreviated motto "QUI TRAN SUST" sometimes lacking the final N or final T (What is transplanted survives). In the border is: "SIGILLUM : COLON : CONNECTICENSIS" (Seal of the Colony of Connecticut). This form of the seal was on every emission from 1755 -1780. The June 1780 emission was signed and numbered in red ink and usually slash or hole canceled upon redemption. The denominations printed were: 9d, 1s3d, 1s6d, 5s, 10s, 20s and 40s notes.obv
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1s3d Serial Number: 9,331 CT 06/01/80
Signers: George Wyllys, Benjamin Payne.
Size: not available.
Comments: Numbered and signed in a light red ink. The hand on the state seal points to the left. Hole cancel. Denominated on the front as 1s3d and on the back as 15d.
Provenance: Scanned image of a note in the Collection of James Conner Poynor.
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2s6d Serial Number: faded CT 06/01/80
Signers: George Wyllys, Benjamin Payne.
Size: not available.
Comments: Numbered and signed in a light red ink that has faded. The hand on the state seal points to the left. Slash canceled with an X. There are winged cherub heads on the back design.
Provenance: Scanned image of a note in the Collection of James Conner Poynor.
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5s Serial Number: 7403 CT 06/01/80
Signers: Jabez Hamlin, Elisha Williams.
Size: 88 x 70mm (front border design 86 x 69mm; back border design 55 x 67mm).
Comments: The hand on the state seal points to the left. Hole cancel. Winged cherub heads on the back design. The partially missing text on the front read as follows: "... of six shillings each, or other silver or / gold Coins equivalent; with Interest at / per Cent. per Annum, by the first / Day of March, A.D. 1784. By Order of As-/ sembly." The partly missing text from the back read: "June 1st / NEW LONDON/ Printed by Timo. Green."
Provenance: EANA mail bid auction 1/13/96 lot 333. Purchased through the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment.
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40s Serial Number: 2696 06/01/80
Signers: Elisha Williams, Jabez Hamlin.
Size: 87 x 70mm (front border design 86 x 68mm; back border design 51 x 64mm).
Comments: Hole cancel over the seal, which had the hand pointing to the left. The partially missing text from the front read as follows: "milled Dollars at the rate of six Shil-/ lings each, or other silver or gold Coins equivalent, with Interest at/ five per Cent. per An-/ num, by the 1st Day of March, A.D. 1784./ by Order of ASSEMBLY. The partially missing text from the back read: "New · London, Printed by TIMOTHY GREEN."
Provenance: EANA mail bid auction 1/13/96 lot 336. Purchased through the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment.
