1769 PENNSYLVANIA COLONIAL 10 SHILLINGS ~ PA-143 ~ BETTERING HOUSE MONEY ~ RARE. Nice VERY FINE. Only 2,000 of the 10 Shilling notes were issued.

Serial # 1647. Pen signed by Pennsylvania colonial officials Stephen Collins, Luke Morris, and James Penrose.

It reads:

"TEN SHILLINGS. THIS Indented BILL of TEN SHILLINGS, shall entitle the Bearer to receive of the Treasurer of the Contributors to the Relief and Employment of the Poor in the City of Philadelphia the like sum of TEN SHILLINGS or equal Value with the same sum of the bills of Credit of this Province, now by Law current, according to the Directions of an Act of General Assembly of Pensylvania, made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His MAJESTY GEORGE III. Dated the Tenth of March 1769*."

The reverse shows a nature print of a leaf and Is DEATH To COUNTERFEIT at left and right. Printed by D. HALL and W. SELLERS . 1769 below.