File:Benjamin Franklin nature printed 55 dollar back 1779.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionBenjamin Franklin nature printed 55 dollar back 1779.jpg |
English: The back (reverse) of a 1779 fifty-five dollar bill of Continental currency. The nature print design was developed by Benjamin Franklin for use on Pennsylvania currency in the decades before the American Revolution. Since no two leaves are alike, it was hoped that the design would aid in detecting counterfeit bills. Franklin's specific method for making these was kept a secret and is unknown, but this form of nature printing was prevalent in the American colonies and the United States from the 1730s through 1779, when Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey issued nature-printed currency. After Franklin retired from printing, his partner David Hall formed the firm of Hall & Sellers, which (after Hall's death) used Franklin's technique on Continental bills like this one. For more info, see here, here, and here. From a private collection, exhibited at Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York. |
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current | 20:13, 25 April 2010 | 1,680 × 2,116 (690 KB) | Beyond My Ken (talk | contribs) | Correcting images (swapping "front" for "back") | |
01:21, 7 April 2010 | 2,042 × 1,610 (646 KB) | Beyond My Ken (talk | contribs) | == Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|1=The front of a sheet of uncut currency printed with shapes from nature by Benjamin Franklin in 1779. Franklin's specific method for making these was kept a secret and is unknown, but this form of nature prin |
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