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Series 1890 $1,000 Treasury Note, nicknamed "The Grand Watermelon" due to the shape and colour of the zeros on the reverse.. The Treasury Note (also known as a Coin Note) was a type of representative money issued by the United States government from 1890 until 1893 under authority of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 and $1,000. [1]
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] They were produced in response to silver agitation by citizens who were angered by the Fourth Coinage Act , which had effectively placed the United States on a gold standard . [ 2 ]
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Before the American Revolution, every one of the Thirteen Colonies had issued its own paper money, most often denominated in British pounds, shillings and pence. In 1776, the newly created United States issued currency which was bought by people who wanted to support the war (it was promised that the currency could be redeemed for Spanish ...
Notes were sent to the bank by the Treasury and typically signed as uncut sheets, so that the top edge of some notes show the lower part of a signature (such as the descender of a "y" or "j") from the note above it.
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Let Me Bring My Clothes Back Home, 1898 Irving Jones, piano with sheet music; There Ain't No Use to Keep On Hanging Around,Irving Jones, 1899, piano with sheet music; My Money Never Gives Out,1900, Irving Jones, performed by Gus Cannon and His Jug Stompers; I'm Lending Money to the Government Now, 1900, Irving Jones, Piano and sheet music
The first series of Confederate paper money, issued in March 1861, bore interest and had a total circulation of $1,000,000. [1] As the war began to turn against the Confederates, confidence in the currency diminished, and the government inflated the currency by continuing to print unbacked banknotes.