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43. Very interesting

Sat Aug 28, 2021, 02:40 AM

Aug 2021

Especially that it was left in pounds. The main gold coin of England in those days was still the guinea, which was worth a pound plus a shilling. The gold sovereign as a widely circulating form of the pound wasn't introduced until 1817. But there was a wide variety of "coin of the realm" circulating in North America at the time, and I'm sure the accountants of the day had no trouble figuring it out.

I'm not from Philly, but I went to school there, and passed by the statue of Franklin (the founder) on the campus every single day.

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