The South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society will hold its next meeting on Sunday, Aug. 25, at 2:15 p.m. at the Historical Society Museum, 250 E. Market St., York.
The program, "Revolutionary Rarity: Continental Currency Printed in York," will be presented by Bart Stump. It will focus on the $5 million of Continental currency full of iconic imagery and mottoes that was printed while the Continental Congress used York as the fledgling nation's capital for nine months. Heavily counterfeited by the British, the April 1778 Yorktown issue of Continental currency was recalled and the majority of the bills were destroyed. The surviving bills, due to their rarity, are now some of the most collectible pieces of Continental currency.
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