Aaron Solomon was a Jewish merchant of

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, who, about 1777, signed an agreement to take the colonial paper currency sanctioned by King

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in place of gold and silver. He left Philadelphia for Europe in 1785.

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* 18th-century American people Businesspeople from Philadelphia American Jews 18th-century American merchants 18th-century births Year of death missing People from colonial Pennsylvania {{US-business-bio-stub