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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 424969, member: 12789&quot;]This is one of those notes that should be surprisingly common, but in fact, it is not.&nbsp; They were issued in 1790 by the Corporation of New York, the City of New York in today&#039;s parlance, and continued to be issued through 1798.&nbsp; In the summer of 1799 a rumour started circulating that there were counterfeits making an appearance, and the rumour was founded and notes found to have been printed in London started appearing.&nbsp; So the remaining notes were called in and redeemed by June 1st of that year.&nbsp; Over 300,000 3 pence notes were printed in the eight year run of this series, but many of them were redeemed and subsequently burned.&nbsp; The remainders are unusually scarce today as a result, usually large print run paper monies in the 18th century would be fairly available today - because they were typically not redeemed and lost value.&nbsp; In this case the notes were redeemed by the Corporation of New York and lost circulation status.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/colonialbanknotes/newyork3d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/colonialbanknotes/newyork3dfr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left">Unfortunately for me, when this item came, the other item in my purchase did NOT, and I hope it will wind it&#039;s way to me by Monday as they were overnighting it.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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