Colonial and Continental currency--when did these notes no longer have exchange value

Colonial and Continental currency--when did these notes no longer have exchange value?

Here is a note I have printed in the colony of Connecticut:

http://i.imgur.com/vh79A.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zfyFj.jpg

At what point did this note lose its value which was 20 shillings or around an English pound as I understand it with interest bearing features in some cases.

Here is a note for $7 in Continental dollars printed a few years later: http://i.imgur.com/BHfsw.jpg

Does anyone have a time scale as one American money system was replaced by the next money system, i.e. the one of the 1790s?

 

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No but nice, I just have the reproductions from 1976 my mom bought

 

Here is a nifty little chart that tells when all the different currencies were demonetized.

http://dollardaze.org/blog/?page_id=00017

 

[TABLE="class: simpleblackborder greentable smallerfont notunderlined"]

Connecticut Continental Shilling (CCTS)
1776
1783
7
Hyperinflation
[/TABLE]

 

Whereas the "dollar" lasted years later:

[TABLE="class: simpleblackborder greentable smallerfont notunderlined"]

Connecticut Dollar (CCTD)
1783
1792
9
Creation of the USD
[/TABLE]

[TABLE="class: simpleblackborder greentable smallerfont notunderlined"]

US Continental Dollar (USC)
1775
1792
17
Creation of the USD
[/TABLE]

 

Good chart, but it jumps back and forth through nations' demonitization and back and forth with time periods.

Another question: How easy was it through U.S. history to get silver for paper money and was this ended in 1933 for gold and 1964 for silver?

 

Paper was redeemable in gold until 1933, but was redeemable in silver coin until 64-65 and then in granules until 1968.