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Message:: [QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1681652, member: 12789"]Not really a "pretty" note per-say, but USA colonials usually never were in the first place.  They were merely functional instruments of payment - the right of which the colonies to issue them in the first place would become one of the sparks for the American Revolution - the ability of individual colonies to sustain their finances independent of British control marked the first instance of dissension with the Crown. An early printer in Philadelphia, Mr. Benjamin Franklin, was appointed by the Pennsylvania colony to print their notes.  In addition the colony of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware - then still nominally part of Pennsylvania engaged Mr. Franklin to print their financial instruments beginning in 1739. <img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknoteimages/usa/colonials/delaware20s1746fb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> This note is a Pound note or 20/- Twenty Shillings from 1746.  As noted it is not pretty.  However, as opposed to the later 1750s and 1760s notes with the imprint of Mr. Franklin that were printed by his associate David Hall, these notes were printed in Mr. Franklin's shop whence he was the sole proprietor of said business.  During the decade of the 1750s and early 1760s Benjamin Franklin was living in London and he didn't handle anything printed in his Philadelphia office.  It is rough, but it is rare and historical.[/QUOTE]