FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Virginia Assembly, in November, 1769, authorized the treasurer to purchase copper in Great Britain for the purpose of importing copper money to the colony (Hening's Statutes, viii, 343).
[2] There are many of these Virginia copper half-pennies, dated 1773, preserved in coin collections. They answer perfectly in appearance to the above description (see Dickeson, American Numismatical Manual, p. 84, and cut on plate viii). Although dated in 1773, it was apparently not until the following year that they were ready to be exported and the proclamation enforcing their acceptance issued.
[1775, August 23.]
[For Suppression of Rebellion in America.]
BY THE KING.
A PROCLAMATION
For suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
George R.