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Initially, sterling coin circulated along with foreign currencies. This was supplemented by local paper money from 1709. Although the local currency was denominated in £sd, it was worth less than sterling, with 1 Connecticut shilling = 9 pence sterling. This rated the Spanish dollar at 6 Connecticut shillings (compared to 4 shillings 6 pence ...
Continental One Third Dollar Note (obverse) A fifty-five dollar Continental issued in 1779. After the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, the Continental Congress began issuing paper money known as Continental currency, or Continentals. Continental currency was denominated in dollars from $ 1 ⁄ 6 to $80, including many odd denominations ...
Continental currency 1/3-dollar note (obverse), with the inscriptions "Fugio" and "Mind your business".. On April 21, 1787, the Congress of the Confederation of the United States authorized a design for an official copper penny, [3] later referred to as the Fugio cent because of its image of the Sun and its light shining down on a sundial with the caption, "Fugio" (Latin: I flee/fly, referring ...
The Coinage Act of 1792 established the United States Mint and regulated the coinage of the United States. [3] The act created coins in the denominations of Half Cent (1/200 of a dollar), Cent (1/100 of a dollar, or a cent), Half Dime (also known as a half disme) (five cents), Dime (also known as a disme) (10 cents), Quarter (25 cents), Half Dollar (50 cents), Dollar, Quarter Eagle ($2.50 ...
The Continental Currency dollar coin (also known as Continental dollar coin, Fugio dollar, or Franklin dollar) was the first pattern coin struck for the United States. [1] [2] The coins, which were designed by Benjamin Franklin, were minted in 1776 and examples were made on pewter, brass, and silver planchets. [3]
Although most are worth no more than a few dollars, some are worth hundreds or thousands of dollars — and a couple are worth $100,000 and above. Here are the two most valuable Presidential ...
1.5 Connecticut. 2 2000 quarters. ... The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at: P = Philadelphia Mint. ... United States half dollar mintage ...
Kreis's eagle for the Connecticut Tercentenary half dollar. Q. David Bowers describes Kreis's eagle as modernistic and noted its resemblance to the one the sculptor had created for the Connecticut half dollar. [24] Don Taxay, writing in 1966, concurred, considering the eagle the most modernistic seen on any coin. [26]