Continental Currency
Base
About This Coin
The Continental Currency pieces dated 1776 carry the sundial, FUGIO and MIND YOUR BUSINESS on one side and thirteen linked rings with the names of the states around AMERICAN CONGRESS and WE ARE ONE on the other, designs shared with the fractional notes of February 17, 1776. No act authorizing them has been found; Eric Newman argued that they were meant to replace the $1 note, which Congress stopped printing from July 1776 to September 1778. Most were struck in pewter, a few in brass and silver, and Newman listed the dies, including the CURENCY, CURRENCY, EG FECIT and CURRENCEY obverses. Later copies are kept here too.
Specifications
Strike Types & Varieties(12)
1776 Continental 'Curency' Silver Dollar
1776 Continental Curency - Brass Dollar (Type 2)
1776 Continental Curency - Copper Dollar
1776 Continental Currencey - Pewter Dollar
1776 Continental Currency - Pewter Dollar (Type 2)
1776 Continental Currency Boyd and Smith - Ni Plated Brass Dollar
1776 Continental Currency EG FECIT - Pewter Dollar
1776 Continental Currency EG FECIT - Silver Dollar
1776 Continental Currency Elder Restrike - Silvered Copper Dollar
1776 Continental Currency Numismatic Knights - Copper Dollar
1776 Continental Currency Ornament after Date Dollar
1776 Continental Currency Pewter Dollar
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