Keywords: legendary coins legendarycoins numismatics money smithsonian probably public domain probablypublicdomain ancient SI Neg. 2005-27381. Date: 9/1/2005. One can't be too careful. This Connecticut note was falling apart when someone backed it with part of a contemporary newspaper, full of news about the war between England and France in the Caribbean. But simple glue would not suffice to mend the note. Someone carefully stitched the note again and again, covering it with an irregular but very strong reinforcement. And it worked. The bill was later canceled and retired by means of a cut from the center to the bottom margin, and it still held together-as did the dreams of the patriots who created and kept it in circulation. Click here to view the obverse. Credit: Tom Mulvaney (Smithsonian Institution) SI Neg. 2005-27381. Date: 9/1/2005. One can't be too careful. This Connecticut note was falling apart when someone backed it with part of a contemporary newspaper, full of news about the war between England and France in the Caribbean. But simple glue would not suffice to mend the note. Someone carefully stitched the note again and again, covering it with an irregular but very strong reinforcement. And it worked. The bill was later canceled and retired by means of a cut from the center to the bottom margin, and it still held together-as did the dreams of the patriots who created and kept it in circulation. Click here to view the obverse. Credit: Tom Mulvaney (Smithsonian Institution) |