The Currency of My Life
$5 Federal Reserve Note - "Old Style"

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Set Details
Note Description: $5 1995
Grade: 67 EPQ
Country: United States
Note Number: 1985-E
Seal Type: Green (Ft. Worth)
Signatures/
Vignettes: 		Withrow
Rubin
Certification #: 1049839-009
Owner: Revenant
Set Category: Small Size Varieties
Set Name: The Currency of My Life
Slot Name: $5 Federal Reserve Note - "Old Style"
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

Since I was born in the mid-1980s, this is the design they were using when I was growing up as a child. So this is the design I saw when I got a $5 bill from my grandmother for my birthday or as part of a Christmas present - She always gave us $25, usually as a $20 and a $5 bill.

The 1993 series bills and later have microprinting and plastic security strips in the bills. These were the first modern anti-counterfeiting / counterfeit detection features added to the bills but these changes didn't do much to change the look of the bill. At first glance the changes were less impactful than the change from silver certificates to FRNs and removing the "I promise to pay on demand in silver" language, which happened decades earlier, well before my time.

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