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1896 $1 Silver Certificates FR 224-225

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Set Details
Note Description: Silver Certificate
$1 1896 Large Size
Grade: 65 EPQ
Country: US
Note Number: 225
Seal Type: Small Red w/ Rays
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 Bruce
Roberts
Certification #: 1015395-012  
Owner: Ron Stone
Sets Competing: Big Silver 1's  Score: 3639
Date Added: 1/1/2018
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

The series of 1896, or "Educational" note, was designed by Will H. Low & engraved by Charles Kennedy Schlecht.
Showing "History instructing Youth" At right, the Constitution; in background, the Washington Monument and the Capital.
Wreath around border shows the names of great Americans.
Reverse shows busts of Martha and George Washington.
Thomas F. Morris designed the reverse from a portrait of Martha Washington, engraved by Charles Kennedy Burt in 1878, and a portrait of George engraved by Alfred Sealey in 1867. Remaining parts of the note were engraved by five other engravers, L. F. Ellis, James Kennedy, D. S. Ronaldson, G. U. Rose, Jr. and E. M. Hall.
Like the series of 1891 notes and the series of 1896 $2 & $5 Educational notes, the $1 Educational note came with a small red seal only.
It is said that the general public didn't approve of how the back of the note was set-up.
They complained saying "no one should come between George and Martha Washington."
The First Family was so revered that it was an insult to place a large "1" as the centerpiece of the note.
The series of 1896 Silver Certificates came with 2 different Registry of the Treasury & Treasurer of the United States signature combinations as follows- Tillman/Morgan & Bruce/Roberts.

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