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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 38, September 20, 2015, Article 34

FEATURED WEB SITE: NOTRE DAME COLONIAL CURRENCY

This week's Featured Web Site is the Colonial Currency section of the University of Notre Dame web site, written and maintained by Lou Jordan. I've illustrated a Virginia March 4, 1773 - Ashby Note.

A catalog featuring hundreds of examples of colonial paper currency with supplementary sections on colonial lottery tickets and fiscal documents. Currency examples range from the New York issue of May 31, 1709 to the fractional currency privately emitted in the 1790's during the copper panic. Emissions are listed under the colony of issue followed by Continental Congress issues. There are a number of notes printed by Benjamin Franklin and several Massachusetts examples by Paul Revere. The site also includes explanatory essays on such topics as the first paper currency emission in the colonies, the relative value of local money in the colonies and land bank notes. The lottery section contains a ticket from the first government sponsored lottery in the colonies, the Massachusetts 1744-45 lottery.

Virginia March 4, 1773 - Ashby Note


Wayne Homren, Editor

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