Early Paper Money of America / Massachusetts / 1776 June 18

Early Paper Money of America (NNP Edition)|

£100,000 in legal tender Bills authorized by the June 21, 1776 Act, one half of the bills of each denomination payable by June 18, 1778 and the other half by June 18, 1779. Bills of 5s4d and under are entirely typeset and are small in size. Bills of 6s and over have three border cuts and a cut of an American Revolutionary figure holding a sword and the Magna Charta (MCA). Bills of 6s and over have the denomination in dollars on the face and back. All bills were printed on coarse paper by Benjamin Edes. Bills of 6s and higher were called in for exchange for other bills by the Acts of Oct. 13, 1777 and Dec. 13, 1777. Due to excessive wear, all bills of 5s4d and below of this and all prior issues were called in by Act of Oct. 13, 1778 for exchange for the Oct. 16, 1778 issue of bills. Signers were Jonathan Brown, S. Carlton, C. Davis, T. Dawes, Abner Ellis, A. Fuller, Daniel Green, Moses Gunn, S. Hall, Ter., Israel Hobart, Daniel Hopkins, D. Jeffries, John Lewis, Sam A. Otis, W. Palfrey, George Partridge, Samuel Thatcher, J. Wigglesworth, and George Williams.

3d Two due dates [8,000]
4d Two due dates [8,000]
5d Two due dates [8,000]
6d Two due dates [8,000]
9d Two due dates [8,000]
10d Two due dates [8,000]
1s Two due dates [8,000] ▷RM◁
1s3d Two due dates [8,000]
1s8d Two due dates [8,000]
2s4d Two due dates [8,000]
2s6d Two due dates [8,000] ▷CF◁
3s6d Two due dates [8,000]
4s Two due dates [8,000]
4s4d Two due dates [8,000] ▷CF◁
5s Two due dates [8,000] ▷CF◁
5s4d Two due dates [8,000]
6s ($1) Two due dates [8,000]
12s ($2) Two due dates [8,000]
18s ($3) Two due dates [8,000]
24s ($4) Two due dates [8,000] ▷CF◁
30s ($5) Two due dates [8,000]
36s ($6) Two due dates [8,000]
42s ($7) Two due dates [8,000]
48s ($8) Two due dates [8,000]