United States paper currency, 1779

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 · 1779

"4 bills, uncut, that are in the denominations of seventy, five, two and one dollars. The face is two colors and has separate designs in each medallion. The verso has leaf prints against stretched gauze backgrounds (nature prints)...Nature prints, produced from imbedding leaves and gauze in a material and then making stereotypes from them, invented by Benjamin Franklin, printed by Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia. Franklin first used this process in 'Poor Richards Almanac for 1838' [i.e. 1738]"--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 5