Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's 1776 Continental Currency Design: An American Propaganda written by Sarah Louise Rector and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rampant inflation led the Continental Congress to stop printing the currency, but the design survived, either wholly or partially, in various decorative art forms during the decades following the Revolutionary War. The paper links the success of the design to the print-like legibility of the design during the War, and the ability of the meaning of the design to be translated into various political circumstances.