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Note Details

Set Details
Note Description: Continental Currency
$2 May 20, 1777 Colonial Notes
Grade: AU 53
Country: US
Note Number: CC-63
Certification #: 8073018-002  
Owner: Colonial Valley Collection
Sets Competing: Colonial Valley Collection - Complete Set  Score: 874
Date Added: 6/1/2020
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

This bill has and image of Grain being Thrashed on the face with the Latin Motto, "Tribulatio Ditat" which translates as, "Affliction Improves It". This bill was signed by James Ross and James Claypoole.

The May 20, 1777 is an underappreciated emission. PMG has graded about twenty May 20, 1777, CC-63 bills with 20% receiving a grade of AU or better and none have received an uncirculated grade. The May 20, 1777 $2 are the 19th rarest of the 102 bills in the series.

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