 Georgia. 1776. Five Shillings. Unnumbered. Blue seal. SPERANDUM. Border variety (t). Signed by Richard Wylly, LaVien, McGillivray, O'Bryen and Ewen. The Five Shillings type with the Crown motif met with consternation by the locals. It was determined to replace that type with this rarely seen color seal type. Like so many of the Georgia notes in the Ford-Boyd Collection of Colonial currency, there is technical grade and eye appeal grade. If not for the slightest little hack out of the lower left border (from a ''pulling'' dismount, note the other side remnant of blue paper on the verso edge), this note looks just about ''new''.
However, Extremely Fine is fair with the caveat of the edge chip out of the left. However, the good news pours forth at blinding speed since the seal color is boldly blue (though slightly uneven at the far right edge). The seal embossing and top ornament line is boldly impressed and visible from the back. The three margins other than the indent side are jumbo. Bright from the face and boasting boldly accomplished signatures. Perhaps, saved for counterfeit and signature detection purposes. Worth multiples of what catalogue value and prior auction results might tell us. There are not many finer.
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