Need Help With Maryland Indented Bills Colonial 1774

I appreciate the bump. This (and the confederate note I posted) is the first time I can remember not getting any information since I joined the forum almost 19 years ago. I've done some basic online research and am leaning towards these being either legit or British counterfeits from the time period. The serial numbers aren't on any list I could find and the paper seems correct.

Personally, I'd take it as a good sign that no-one has responded; if it were an easily provable fake, there'd be people posting, with proof.

I'd imagine such a note would be perilous to declare to be authentic, based purely on an online photo, so you may not get a "it's definitely good" answer. You might have to settle for "it's not definitely bad".

As for the guilt-by-association of being found with a bunch of obvious counterfeits, I'd say that, just like the apparently-genuine Confederate note in the same bundle, it's a matter of someone not really having a clue about real or fake, and storing all their "old obsolete notes" in the one place.

I've checked in on this thread 3 or 4 times, but I'm in the same situation here, it's way out of my wheelhouse, too. I've been doing buyer-side deals for 55 years, and I've never handled any colonial or continental currency or bonds. I can think of dealers I knew back in the day who had small inventories of them. I can think of two collectors who are long gone who built good collections of them and then sold their collections to Eric Newman. But I can't think of anyone I know today who has (or is building) a collection.

Thank you for the update.

Here is the $8

http://www.banknote.ws/COLLECTION/c...USAS0980.htm

I don't see a 1774 $6, but I do see them available.

Honestly I would send these in for grading. You might have 2 good notes.