Picture of the day archives: 2016 February < 2016 February 20 2016 February 22 > Picture of the day A twelve-shilling note from the Province of New Jersey, dated 25 March 1776. The New Jersey pound was a type of colonial currency used in New Jersey until 1793, when it was replaced by the U.S. dollar.Banknote: Province of New Jersey and I. Collins (printer); image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution Archive – More featured pictures... Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.