CC-88 "Captain Cox & Major Donnell" PMG AU55 EPQ 1779 Continental Currency

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CC-88 "Captain Cox & Major Donnell" PMG AU55 EPQ 1779 Continental Currency
CC-88 "Captain Cox & Major Donnell" PMG AU55 EPQ 1779 Continental Currency
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January 14, 1779 "TWO DOLLARS" Continental Colonial Currency Note.
Very Conservatively Graded & certified by PMG as About New AU55 EPQ (Exceptional Paper Quality), with superb eye-appeal. There are no problems of any kind, and there are no pin holes.
Colorful serial number and signatures. Darkly inked on both sides including the interesting
2-
color emblem of "grain being thrashed by a flail"
with the Latin motto TRIBULATIO, "affliction improves it". The paper itself is
watermarked "UNITED STATES" on two lines
when candled from behind (see last photo). Along with the watermarked paper, this particular note contains thick blue threads that are embedded into the paper itself. One thread crosses the before mentioned 2-color emblem, and another thread is located in the blank bottom border area on the back. These blue threads were used as an anti counterfeiting device to make the paper more difficult to counterfeit.
Attractive & Bold 5-digit serial number 40305 in red ink
, along with the equally bold signatures of Paul Cox (in dark brown ink), and that of Nathaniel Donnell (in red ink).
Captain Paul Cox (1748-1832)
served as lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of Philadelphia militia under Colonel Sharp Delany, and also in the same capacity under Colonel William Bradford.
Paul Cox, who was on the Board of the Old Pine Street Church for four decades, and whose tomb lies under the shadow of the church, reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Pennsylvania militia, was captain in the Pennsylvania navy, and in 1777 was one of the six members of the Committee of Safety, which had charge of the defenses of the city. Records exist of his purchasing fire-ships and ammunition in the Pennsylvania Archives. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Militia Convention in Lancaster in 1776 with Colonel Knox. In 1779, he was one of a committee, with such men as Cadwalader Dickinson, Charles W. Peale, David Rittenhouse, and Thomas Paine, for his fellow-members, to banish Tories from Philadelphia.
Major Nathaniel Donnell (1751-1821)
was first a 2nd Lieutenant, and then a 1st Lieutenant, in Roman's Independent Company, Pennsylvania Artillery in 1776. Later that year he became Captain of Lieutenant Colonel Ebenzer Steven's Battalion of Artillery. Steven's Battalion eventually became part of the 3rd Continental Artillery. Donnell served until 1783. His death certificate lists palsy as the cause of death.
This is an authentic & historical item that was printed & issued in 1779 during the Revolutionary War (1775-83), less than a three years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Free insured USPS Priority Mail with Signature Confirmation
(trackable) to anywhere in the United States.
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