***Auction Highlight*** Continental Currency May 10, 1775 $2 FR-CC-2 Sig Samuel Morris, Moedecai Lewis Grades vf, very fine. the $2 denomination from this initial Continental emission is actually the scarcest. The emblem is a hand with a thresher's flail and the motto is TRIBULATIO DITAT, which Newman translates "affliction improves it." The nature print depicts a raspberry and two filberts. This is one of the sleeper rarities that is the sine qua non of any advanced Continental Currency collection. 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. A Corey's Pick, Bid to Win Coin