 Government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware. February 28, 1746. Twenty Shillings. Serial number present, but indistinct. Plate ''B''. Signed Hugh Durborrow, Jno. Clowes, and Tho.(mas) Clark. Printed on thin paper by B.(enjamin) Franklin. Square seal with motto engraved by Thomas Leech. Four crowns security device. The back with nature print, lion and parsley leaf motif with Franklin imprint. A second example. A well printed note on the face, Fine, with a horizontal split. Well margined for a note of this series, but fully backed on a thin white card (no warranty on the quality of the back on this example). Pencil code on back of card ''glr'' [?].
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Estate; probably Wayte Raymond.
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