When printing paper money for the colony of Pennsylvania in the 1730s, Benjamin Franklin—then a Philadelphia shop owner—took steps to combat the circulation of counterfeit notes, such as weaving blue threads and nuscovite (a reflective mineral) into the paper he used. ______, he stamped the notes with detailed imprints of sage leaves that proved difficult for forgers to replicate.

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