April 10th, 1777 Pennsylvania 4 Shillings Continental Currency Note - Red Ink Type - 1777 Four Shillings Pennsylvania Note - PA-217b

This listing is for the photographed 1777 4 Shillings Pennsylvania Colonial Currency Note. Dated April 10th, 1777. Issued "according to an Act of General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, passed the Twentieth Day of March, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven." Printed with red ink as well as black ink, a rarer variation of this kind of colonial currency. Reverse says the note was printed by John Dunlap, along with the phrase "to counterfeit is death" in an attempt to prevent the practice of counterfeiting these notes. Fine (F) grade/condition, many folds and signs of circulation, fragile note. Rarer denomination. Rare and amazing piece of history. PA-217b.

The printer of this note, John Dunlap, was most well known for being responsible for the first printing of broadsides of the Declaration of Independence, copies of which were posted in various public places for citizens to see. He was the first official printer of the Continental Congress. By an Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on March 20, 1777, John Dunlap began to print Pennsylvania currency. The notes ranged in denomination from three pence to four shillings. When the British occupied Philadelphia in September of 1777, Dunlap moved his press to Lancaster, PA where the Pennsylvania Assembly was meeting. By the following July he was able to move back to Philadelphia and continued to print Continental Currency until the Continental Congress was disbanded in 1789.

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April 10th, 1777 Pennsylvania 4 Shillings Continental Currency Note - Red Ink Type - 1777 Four Shillings Pennsylvania Note - PA-217b