Rare $20 May 10, 1775 The 1st Continental Currency Note PMG Very Good 8 Net.

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Rare $20 May 10, 1775 The 1st Continental Currency Note PMG Very Good 8 Net. :
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Continental Currency May 10, 1775 $20 PMG Very Good 8 Net.(So there is no mistake, the 1st picture shows the note with and without a newly printed slip on boot with colored marble to show what complete note would have looked like, You are offerding on an OriginalMay 10, 1775Note, missing the marble edge of note shown as it is in in pictures 2 and 3, if you win sale, the option to receive note with or without boot will be yours.)
The Rarest of all the Continentals,It is torn but still a collectable.this note is of a different shape and design than any other of the 101 varieties of Continental notes. It\'s printed on thin, weak paper that was supplied by Benjamin Franklin, and it bears a multicolor anti-counterfeiting marbling stain at its left edge. This note is missing most of its left marbled edge, along with small portions of the lower right-hand corner. What remains is substantially Fine or better.
The back is inverted on all examples of this issue. Description Continental Congress Issue May 10, 1775 $20 Fair. Although not much to look at, this worn, tattered, and backed \"shinplaster\" is the rarest Continental Congress note, with only 11,800 pieces originally printed and survivors rare in all grades. This note was printed on thin, weak paper by Ben Franklin, and most known examples survived in similar shape to this piece. Size: 65 x 124mm (front border design: 57 x 120mm; back border design: 59 x 122mm). Comments: Numbering and second signature in red ink; first signature in black ink. Most colonial and confederation era paper currency is aligned so that the back is either properly displayed or to one side when the note is turned with a \"medal turn\" (that is, like turning a page in a book). All notes on this website display the small images with the reverse displayed as it would appear following a medal turn. his was done so the alighment of the front and back can be easily determined. This special issue and denomination note is aligned in the manner of a \"coin turn\" hence I displayed the reverse upside down on the smaller image as that is the orientation if one flips the note from the left or right side (as in a medal turn). Simply click the small image to see the large image of the reverese properly oriented. The emblem on the front shows a strong wind creating waves on the ocean with the motto \"Vi concitatae\" (It assults with a violent force). On the back is a emblem with the shining sun and ships on a calm sea with the motto \"Cessante vento conquiescemus\" (When the wind subsides we shall rest). Newman has discovered a preliminary sketch for the front emblem in the papers of Benjamin Franklin (see his third edition p. 53).
The $20 bill from this first emission was unique in that it was a different size from all other continental currency and was made on different paper. It was printed by Hall and Sellers on a thin white paper with a marbled left border that had been made by Benjamin Franklin. Unlike the other bills they were printed individually rather than in sheets. Also, since this note was the only Contenental Congress not that did not include border cuts, it was the only Continental Congress variety that did not include the phrase \"The United Colonies\" (later changed to \"The United States\").
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