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Description Reverse of a 1776 Continental currency half Spanish dollar. The note was designed by Benjamin Franklin, and the design was also used on other denominations, a coin, and the 1787 Fugio cent.[1]
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Source Chapter 5 of The Most Splendid Carpet, Susan H. Anderson, National Park Service, 1978 (direct image URL [2])
Author Benjamin Franklin (original note); image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Division of Numismatics.

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