By His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esquire, president, and the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation
Subtitle: whereas divers ill-disposed persons have manufactured, or imported into this state, quantities of base metal, in the similitude of British half-pence ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one. ...
Contributors: Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17284.
Publisher: Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-street.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Counterfeits and counterfeiting -- Pennsylvania.; Broadsides.
Notes: Against receiving spurious British half-pence in payment of taxes or other public debts.

Signed: Joseph Reed, president. Attest. T. Matlack, secretary.

State seal at head of title.

Evans 17284.

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 4146.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17284).