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Pennsylvania Colonial Currency Pair, October 25th, 1775 Signed by Richard Humphreys

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Paper Money - United States Start Price:180.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
Pennsylvania Colonial Currency Pair, October 25th, 1775 Signed by Richard Humphreys
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220.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2022 Jan 18 @ 14:31UTC-5 : EST/CDT
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Pennsylvania, October 25th, 1775. Lot of 2 Issued banknotes: 1 Shilling, P-S2549, S/N 4711; and 2 Shillings and 6 Pence, P-S2552, S/N 118. Both have black text with black borders and are in Fine-VF condition. Printed by Hall and Sellers. Signatures include Phil Kinsey, Thomas Shoemaker, and Richard Humphreys, among others. Richard Humphreys (February 13, 1750-1832) was a Quaker philanthropist and silversmith who was born on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. He came to Philadelphia in 1764, and became concerned about the struggled of free people of color to make a living in a discriminatory society. News of a race riot against free blacks in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1829 inspired Humphreys to bequeath money in his will for higher education for free blacks. He was the founder of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest historically black university in the United States. Hall and Sellers was a Philadelphia printing company originally established by Benjamin Franklin. In 1743 Franklin hired David Hall (1714-77), a Scottish journeyman printer, and in 1748 made the latter a partner. The firm printed the Pennsylvania Gazette, Franklin's newspaper. In 1766 Franklin sold his share in the business to Hall, and later that same year Hall brought in the journeyman printer William Sellers as his new partner, establishing Hall & Sellers. The firm carried government contracts, including printing paper money. (2)