New Jersey Currency
Rare June 22, 1756 New Jersey Six Pounds Green Reverse
New Jersey. June 22, 1756. Six Pounds. Green Reverse. Major repairs. PMG Net graded Very Good-8.
Fr. NJ-100. This Rare June 22, 1756 New Jersey currency issue and Six Pounds denomination is extremely rare. Only 625 notes were authorized to be printed. They were meant to be legal tender only until June of 1761, and made invalid by the end of December of that same year. Therefore, most every note issued should have been redeemed back into the Treasury by December of 1761 and destroyed. It seems obvious that only a scarce few of these red, black and green printed, highest denomination notes would survive till this day. The reverse is printed in green, the color of this example being very muted and quite soft and mushy in appearance. The central design sage leaf is seen, there are two thin strips of nearly invisible old archival fiber paper reinforcement along the reverse centerfolds. The face is attractive for the grade.