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Note Description: Maryland Colonial Note
$1/9 January 1, 1767 Colonial Notes
Grade: G 6
Country: US
Note Number: MD-38
Certification #: 2171901-001  
Owner: OA Nentico
Sets Competing: Not competing in any sets
Date Added: 7/25/2025
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

JANUARY 1, 1767 Resolution Set #6 / Slot No.#1 MD-38 $1/9: PMG G-6

This MD-38 G-6 is an uncommon Colonial Maryland issue with only four (4) known graded specimens from PMG; all in the range of Good to Very Good 6 to 10. The Note does retain good detail and penned signatures along some degree of eye appeal even with clear signs of extensive circulation. The Note has been repaired by way of being backed with the reverse of another Note to lend additional stability to the paper body.

The January 1, 1767 Resolution Issues consisting of 11 different denominations; MD-38 thru MD-48. This is the Sixth Colonial Maryland Resolution Series and was authorized on November 1, 1766 by the Assembly of Maryland in the amount of $173,733 in indented bills and were payable at a rate of 4s6d sterling per dollar. It is importance to note that this is the first official governmental use of the “dollar” denomination on American currency for monetary use. As such, the historical significance is obvious and without parallel. The design features the Maryland coat of arms, as well as elaborate border designs engraved by Thomas Sparrow, a local Annapolis silversmith and engraver. The large left border margin or “indent” is quite unique to Maryland colonial Notes. When these margins are fully intact, they lend to great eye appeal. The back employs nature prints first used on the colony's July 14, 1756 emission Notes. Of some interest, on the front of the $1 and $2 Notes there is a small vignette of a coined Spanish Silver Dollar depicted in the design. This is the first use of coin depictions on American paper money.

These Notes were printed by Jonas Green at his shop in Annapolis, Maryland located at 124 Charles Street, just three blocks from the Colonial Capital, now today’s state capital of Maryland. His name appears on the backs of these Notes bordering the various nature prints. Green was a protégé of Benjamin Franklin and worked for him as a journeyman at Franklin’s printing shops in Philadelphia. Jonas was the great-grandson of Samuel Green and learned the printing trade at his father’s shop in Boston. In 1738 Jonas moved to Annapolis and set up his print shop and became the Colonies official printer. According the Benjamin Franklin Historic Society, Franklin was a silent partner in Green’s shop which was part of Franklin’s plan to expand his business by establishing printing houses in other colonies. Jonas expanded his business soon after he arrived in Annapolis when he revived The Maryland Gazette in 1745 and became its publisher one of the oldest newspapers in America.

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