Proclamation Money 上市 Deposited
The name given to coins valued, according to a table pre- scribed in a proclamation of Queen Anne, on dune 18, 1704, in which the Spanish Dollar of seventeen and one half penny- weights was to be rated at six Shillings in all of the North American Colonies.
Horace White, in Money and Banking, 1896 (p. 15), says that "six shillings was considered by the home government a fair average of the various Colonial valuations of the Spanish Dollar. This valuation came to be known by the term Proclama- tion Money."
In the Archives of the State of New Jer- sey, 1735 (xi. 432), occurs a statement: "I do hereby promise to Pay to the said Discoverer the Sum of Thirty Bounds, Proclamation Money."
Similarly, in the New Hampshire Pro- vincial Papers of 1748 (reprinted 1871, v. 905), an official says that "His Majesty has recommended that my salary should be fixed and Paid in Sterling or Proclamation Money."
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)