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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1130607, member: 12789&quot;]<b>Maryland 1/- One Shilling Remainder 1733</b></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/colonials/maryland1s1733dtl1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p style="text-align: left"><b>The arms of Maryland from a One Shilling note printed in 1733.&nbsp; The Latin legend on the note <i>Crecite et Multiplicani</i> translates to increase and multiply.</b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b></b><p style="text-align: center"><b><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/colonials/maryland1s1733.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><b>Maryland issued it&#039;s first paper money in 1733, and it had a&nbsp; curious reason for issuing it - each taxable person in Maryland who&nbsp; burned 150lbs of tobacco to prevent the depressing of the tobacco price&nbsp; was paid 30/-.&nbsp; The notes in seven denominations from 1/- to 20/- were&nbsp; authorised by the <i>Commissioners of the Loan Office</i> and backed with a purchase of Bank of England stock.&nbsp; These notes were intended to be issued until 29thSeptember&nbsp; 1764, after which they were retired.&nbsp; The plates for the notes were&nbsp; engraved in England, and the notes were printed on fine woven and&nbsp; watermarked paper that was made in England also and bore &quot;Maryland&quot; in&nbsp; the watermark.</b></p></p> <p style="text-align: center">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <p style="text-align: left"><b>These notes are long horizontal notes, and the image above&nbsp; has had to be reduced to permit it to easily be viewed.&nbsp; They were&nbsp; printed in plates of five notes each, a curious feature of the notes is&nbsp; that in the lower left center where the denomination is there are stars&nbsp; denoting the plate position of the note - this note having four stars&nbsp; was the fourth note on the plate.&nbsp; These notes having been printed in&nbsp; large quantities were used for the 1733 issue, then unused sheets were&nbsp; used again for a 1740 and a final 1751 issue.&nbsp; Because of the quantities&nbsp; printed for each denomination they were stored in archives for a long&nbsp; time - becoming redundant with the 1756 note issue that was printed by&nbsp; Jonas Green of Annapolis.&nbsp; Subsequently a small quantity of them have&nbsp; been liberated from archives in Maryland and now represent the earliest&nbsp; paper money that is readily available for most collectors.</b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/colonials/maryland1s1733dtl2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>The indent portion of the note, like many early banknotes a&nbsp; portion of the note was kept in an account book, and the note was cut&nbsp; out by hand using a sharp blade usually with a wavy pattern to make the&nbsp; cut unique to the note as a guarantee that it was original.</b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> </p> </p> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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