General note: Note in manuscript: issue number "19434" and two signatures in brown ink.
Subject: Continental currency. (Referred to as, "Continentals").
Inscription: "THIS Bill shall pass current for EIGHT SHILLINGS, according to an Act of GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania, passed the Twentieth Day of March, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-seven. Dated the Tenth Day of April, A.D. 1777. EIGHT SHILLINGS."Vers ; Verso: "Eight Shillings. To Counterfeit is DEATH. PHILADELPHIA: Printed by JOHN DUNLAP. 1777."
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