Continental Bill of Credit
Benjamin Franklin
(devices) (American, 1706–1790)
Elisha Gallaudet
(American, about 1730–1805)
David Rittenhouse
(border cuts) (American, 1732–1796)
Hall and Sellers
(American, 1766–1804)
February 17, 1776
Object PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Medium/TechniquePrinted with black ink on paper with mica flakes and blue thread; signed and numbered with red ink
Credit LineThe Sidney A. and Ellen M. Wien Collection—Given in their memory by Claire W. and Richard P. Morse
Accession number2004.1886
On View
Not on viewClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
ProvenanceCollected by Sidney A. Wien (1902-1962), Atlanta, Georgia, between the mid-1940's and 1962; by descent to his daughter, Claire W. Morse, in 1962; to the MFA in November 2004, gift of Claire W. and Richard P. Morse.
