[PENNSYLVANIA]. Private Scrip Issuer, 'I [Joseph Ogden] Promise to Pay..... Middle Ferry on Schuylkill'. Complete Uncut Sheet of Five Notes. Unnumbered and unsigned. A complete uniface sheet of five notes, three horizontally by two vertically (with a blank position at the bottom right), 3d-4d-5d/6d-9d. January 18, 1777. Printed on laid paper with watermark 'WORK & BE RICH' visible at the top. Typeset bills with ornate pattern frames. These are remainder bills used by Joseph Ogden, operator of the ferry, to make change for passengers. We have never seen a signed and issued example of this series. As a sheet, Choice About Uncirculated. Well embossed and boldly printed. Some edge nicks on the perimeter of the very wide margins, but the notes are all individual Gems.
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