Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Twenty-shilling piece of Pennsylvania colonial currency printed by Franklin & Hall. Twenty-shilling note, 3½ x 3 inches, printed on both sides, signed by S.P. Moore, George Dillwyn, and Amos Hillborn on recto, with verso bearing an engraved forest scene and the motto "To counterfeit is death"; moderate wear. [Philadelphia]: Franklin & Hall, 18 June 1764

Additional Details

This was the largest of the 11 denominations in this currency issue. Miller, "Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing" 820.