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Levy, Benjamin, ?-1809 [Signed thirty dollar Contintental bill, no. 54504]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.500.02 Author/Creator: Levy, Benjamin, ?-1809 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Printed document signed Date: 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 7.3 cm, Width: 9.5 cm Order a Copy

United States currency note worth "thirty Spanish milled dollars or the value thereof in gold or silver." Cosigned by Thomas Donnellan, and numbered 54504, possibly in Levy's hand. Reverse states it was printed by Hall and Sellers.

Levy, Benjamin, -1809
Donnellan, Thomas, fl. 1777

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