Extracts from the Gazette, 1730
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 19, 1730.

Last Week some counterfeit Five Shilling Bills of our Currency were passed here; but as they were clumsily done, upon mean Letter and ordinary Paper, and very unlike the Originals, they were soon discovered, and trac’d to One who was lately in Town from New-Castle. Orders are sent down to examine him about them. It is supposed they are come from the old Quarter; tho’ ’tis surprising that a Course of ill Success is not a sufficient Discouragement to such Practices.

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