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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01980.05.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Currency, Counterfeiting and Coins |
| Title | Workhouse issue of colonial currency |
| Date | 10 April 1775 |
| Author | Roberts, Edward (fl. 1775) |
| Document Type | Government document |
| Content Description | co-signed by Job Bacon and Lindsay Coats. Two Pound Ten Shilling note; also listed as fifty shillings. Issued by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Printed in red and black by Hall and Sellers in Philadelphia. The back contains an engraving of the Walnut Street Workhouse (jail) in Philadelphia, which caused the note to be called the Workhouse issue. |
| Subjects | Coins and Currency Finance Economics |
| Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Theme | Banking & Economics; The American Revolution |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
| Related documents | Three pieces of currency from the colonial and early republic periods Rhode Island currency Delaware colonial currency |