HG Bahr No./5 Copy right secured according to act of Congress in the year 1865, By HENRY PHILLIPS, JR., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern EDITION OF 250 COPIES, AND 3 ON DRAWING PAPER. 50 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER. PREFACE. During the last few years, considerable attention has been drawn towards the subject to which this volume is devoted. The various issues of the paper money of the American colonies, and of the Continental Congress, extending over a period of nearly a century, had become an attraction to many persons who had entered into the pursuit of collecting them. Naturally they sought, but mostly in vain, for the information which was to explain the origin and history of the notes, and to guide them in their investigations. Some works bearing upon the subject were known to be in existence, but were not generally available, while the growing desire of a closer knowledge of their contents, caused continual inquiry and search to be made for them. The fruitless results so often arising from such inquiries created in the mind of the present editor (and of most of the sketches the author) the design of bringing together, B |