***Auction Highlight*** Continental Currency February 26, 1777 $3 Fr-CC56 Printed By Hall & Sellers Grades Choice AU/BU Slider. Latin motto EXITUS IN DUBIO EST, which Newman translates as "The outcome is in doubt." The British occupied Philadelphia from December 20, 1776 to February 27, 1777. For this reason, the Continental Congress met during this period "at Baltimore." Printed by Hall & Sellers. Hall & Sellers was a Philadelphia printing company originally established by Benjamin Franklin. In 1743 Franklin hired David Hall (1714-77), a Scottish journeyman printer, and in 1748 made the latter a partner. The firm printed Pennsylvania Gazette, Franklin's newspaper. In 1766 Franklin sold his share in the business to Hall, and later that same year Hall brought in the journeyman printer William Sellers as his new partner, establishing Hall & Sellers. The firm carried government contracts, including printing paper money.