eight dollar bill

The signers of the bill are John Clapham and William Eddis. Those are their signatures on the bill, J Clapham and W Eddis. Hopefully this helps with your research.

History.....April 10, 1774
"An emission of $480,000 in indented bills without legal tender status authorized on November 16, 1773, of which $266,666 was for loans, $80,000 for government expenses and $133,334 to be exchanged for worn bills. The notes were to be payable from October 10, 1785 - April 10, 1786 at the rate of 4s6d sterling per dollar or equivalent in gold or silver. However by an act of October 17, 1780 all currency issues before 1776 were to be exchanged at a rate of $40 old dollars for $1 new dollar until March 20, 1781 at which time they became void. The issue was similar to the March 1, 1770 issue but on thinner paper containing mica flakes and using the nature prints of the July 14, 1756 emission. Printed by Anne Catherine Green and William Green with border cuts by Thomas Sparrow. Each bill had two signers and had what were termed "secret marks" to deter and detect counterfeits. Although such marks appeared on several colonial issues they were always exactly copied by counterfeiters. Denominations printed were: $1/9, $1/6, $2/9, $1/3, $1/2, $2/3, $1, $2, $4, $6 and $8. "

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There are many reproductions of this type of bill. The signature ink and the serial number ink should be a different color than the other print, normally on real ones the signature/serial# ink is a brown color. Also the serial # is hand written.

Also the real ones have little to no empty border around the front and the leaf image on the back is not centered but up to one edge. Real one sell in the $200-250.00 range. Thats American dollars not sterling. :)

8$ colonial dollar bill of year 1774 has a value of 300$-400$ depending on its condition.