30 Shillings, New Jersey, 1776
date: label: date on object
content: 1776-03-25
label: date made
content: 1776
name: label: maker
content: Collins, Isaac
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) 30 shilling note
label: Description (Brief)
content: Colonial America, 1776
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: A crest in red ink and half a sun.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: THIRTY SHILLINGS. / NO. 3401 / THIS BILL OF THIRTY SHILLINGS PROCLAMATION, IS EMITTED BY A LAW OF THE COLONY OF NEW JERSEY, PAFFED IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS MAJEFTY KING GEORGE THE THIRD. / DATED MARCH 25, 1776.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Line of Zodiac symbols at top, leaf in center, line of swirls along sides, line of crowns beneath leaf, flower on either end of crown row.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: THIRTY SHILLINGS. / 'TIS DEATH TO COUNTERFEIT. / BURLINGTON IN NEW-JERSEY, PRINTED BY ISSAC COLLINS,
label: Description
content: Currency issued by governments is protected by law. Historically money has conveyed messages to people about the consequences of counterfeiting it. This American colonial note from the 1770s plainly states the punishment for falsely imitating the legal tender at the time: “‘Tis Death to Counterfeit.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: NNC Colonial Currency
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Feingold, Ellen R.. Value of Money, The
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0016.016
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0016.016
label: accession number
content: 2014.0016
label: serial number
content: 3401
objectType: label: Object Name
content: note
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.7 cm x 10.2 cm x .01 cm; 2 1/4 in x 4 1/32 in x in