 Georgia. 1776. Four Spanish Milled Dollars. No.958. Light blue seal. Floating Jugs. SI COLLIDIMUS FRANGIMUR. Border variety (d). Signed by Telfair, Bard, McGillivray, O'Bryen and Ewen. This seal was specified for the Two Dollars note, but is seen transposed on some notes such as this example. An interesting anomaly. Choice Extremely Fine to About Uncirculated. A very bold example with superbly crisp paper quality. There are two light vertical folds near each other in the center. They do not break any surfaces and border on being ''bends'' only. The seal is bright blue with only some weakness on the motto. Some tiny edge nicks in the wide top margin. The other margins are trimmed in here and there. Two back hinge remnants. The technical merits and minor detriments are strongly positive. The impressive paper and blinding brightness of the paper make this quite a special example.
According to Newman, this transposed seal variant is seen only as border variety (d). It would seem likely that the transposed seal was only one position out of two or four notes on a sheet (see Newman appendix page 456 for one possible sheet structure on this series, the sheet $1-$4/$4-$10).
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