Ol’ Ben was a pretty smart guy.
Yeah, that’s for sure!
https://www.fi.edu/en/benjamin-franklin-faq
Ben’s Franklin’s Money sidebar:
Ben Franklin’s Last Will & Testament
By Ric Edelman
https://wecanrise.com/ben-franklins-will/
[snip] By the time he died on April 17, 1790, Ben Franklin was one of the wealthiest men in the United States. In his will, he bequeathed 1,000 pounds sterling each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia — worth roughly $119,000 in 2019 dollars — with the instructions that much of the money remain untouched for 100 years and the rest untouched for 200 years. [/snip]