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Benjamin Franklin Printing Blocks Identified

ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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I know this is a bit off topic, but I thought this was interesting enough to share none the less.

Currency blocks from Ben Franklin.


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    kazkaz Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭
    very cool, and anything relating to B. Franklin and money has a place on this forum.
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    BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,200 ✭✭✭✭
    Darn, no value estimate? image

    What an incredible piece of U.S. history. What's even more incredible is how it survived this long!
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What an incredible piece of U.S. history. What's even more incredible is how it survived this long! >>



    And just think of the items still waiting to be discovered out there.


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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I know this is a bit off topic, but I thought this was interesting enough to share none the less.

    Currency blocks from Ben Franklin. >>



    Don't worry about it one bit. It won't disrupt the posting of foreign coins.
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    BodinBodin Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭
    THIS IS SO COOL!!!
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    AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,375 ✭✭✭✭
    Amazing! These were the designs on the reverse of some Continental Currency I think...?
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Saw that in the esylum and was properly amazed!
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What a great find! Lost history is still out there!

    Latin American Collection

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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow. image Thanks for posting cool.


    Hoard the keys.
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    3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Double post
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    3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Given the date of currency printed with the leaf block, issued by the province of Delaware in 1760, this particular block was almost certainly cast not by Franklin but by his successor David Hall."

    lol,
    Erik
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    nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Superimage

    And interesting!!!

    Thanks for sharing this!

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    mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    Great story.....thans for sharing.
    I used to live in Philly and have spent lots of time in Media.
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    JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    That's where it all began, brother. Unbelievable find.
    Let's try not to get upset.
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amazing find.... thanks for posting this....Cheers, RickO
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    jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lost in a collection is shameful. Hoarders of history should not be praised.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,217 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Given the date of currency printed with the leaf block, issued by the province of Delaware in 1760, this particular block was almost certainly cast not by Franklin but by his successor David Hall."

    lol,
    Erik >>



    When did Oates join the firm?
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,259 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>very cool, and anything relating to B. Franklin and money has a place on this forum. >>



    Amen.

    Most people aren't aware that he is considered "The First American". Not to take anything away from the American Indian, in that respect.
    Also , from the digital age of electrons, we wouldn't have silicon… or solid state , or any of that . We wouldn't have Ohm's law if Ben weren't holding the "key" on a string, as history would have it.

    Ben Franklin is one of my personal American heroes. Not bad for an immigrant, anyway.

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    gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the post.
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
    coool, even with the pop ups on the text page

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