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The $1 silver certificate from the Hawaii overprint series. 1899 United States five-dollar Silver Certificate (Chief Note) depicting Running Antelope of the Húŋkpapȟa. Silver certificates are a type of representative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part of its circulation of paper currency. [1]
All Black Eagle certificates have a small blue seal on the obverse to the right of the eagle. [8] Smillie engraved the portraits of Lincoln and Grant which are found on the obverse of the 1899 series Black Eagle Silver Certificate. [9] Smillie also created the engraving of the Bald eagle which appears in the center of the note. [10]
The seal was printed with a toothed outer edge, and other than the color were the same across all styles of currency. Federal Reserve Notes were issued with a green seal, silver certificates with a blue seal, gold certificates with an orange seal, United States Notes with a red seal, and National Bank Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes with ...
The obverse was nearly identical to the Series of 1923 $1 silver certificate, but the Treasury seal featured spikes around it and a large gray ONE replaced the blue "1 DOLLAR." The reverse, too, had the same border design as the Series of 1923 $1 bill, but the center featured a large ornate ONE superimposed by ONE DOLLAR .
The very first 1928 Silver Certificate issued (i.e., Serial number 1). The Series of 1928 was the first issue of small-size currency printed and released by the U.S. government . These notes, first released to the public on July 10, 1929, were the first standardized notes in terms of design and characteristics, featuring similar portraits and ...
Small size notes were only made in denominations of $1, $5 and $10. The small notes were made with a blue seal, except for notes made as an emergency issue for American soldiers in North Africa during World War II, which were made with a yellow seal, as well as a $1 note made for use only in Hawaii during World War II, which had a brown seal.
Large-size silver certificates (1878 to 1923) [nb 2] were issued initially in denominations from $10 to $1,000 (in 1878 and 1880) [15] [16] and in 1886 the $1, $2, and $5 were authorized. [16] [17] In 1928, all United States bank notes were re-designed and the size reduced. [18]
The dollar was issued with a red seal or a blue seal. In July 1929, the BEP issued less than two million Funnybacks of the red-seal variety. The blue-seal variety was issued after July 1929. [4] The Funnyback was issued from 1928 until 1935. [9] Some Funnybacks have serial numbers that begin with x, y or z, and all were in the B-block printing.