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[[File:Dollar1776.jpg|thumb|1776 Continental currency|90px]]

[[File:Dollar1776.jpg|thumb|1776 Continental currency|90px]]

'''Continental currency''' known colloquially as '''Continentals''' were paper notes issued by the [[Second Continental Congress]]

'''Continental currency''' known colloquially as '''Continentals''' were paper notes issued by the [[Second Continental Congress]].

Continentals were destroyed by excessive [[Printing money|money printing]] by the [[British]] government as part of a campaign of economic warfare.  In his memoirs, [[Benjamin Franklin]] wrote about the tactics used:

Continentals were destroyed through excessive [[Printing money|money printing]] by the [[British]] government as part of a campaign of economic warfare.  In his memoirs, [[Benjamin Franklin]] wrote about the tactics used:

<blockquote>The artists they employed performed so well that immense quantities of these counterfeits which issued from the British government in New York, were circulated among the inhabitants of all the states, before the fraud was detected. This operated significantly in depreciating the whole mass.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bfRKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA412 The Monthly Review]</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>The artists they employed performed so well that immense quantities of these counterfeits which issued from the British government in New York, were circulated among the inhabitants of all the states, before the fraud was detected. This operated significantly in depreciating the whole mass.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bfRKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA412 The Monthly Review]</ref></blockquote>