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1891 $1 Silver Certificates FR 222-223

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Set Details
Note Description: Silver Certificate
$1 1891 Large Size
Grade: 65 EPQ
Country: US
Note Number: 223
Seal Type: Small Red, Scalloped
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 Tillman
Morgan
Certification #: 1015395-011  
Owner: Ron Stone
Sets Competing: Big Silver 1's  Score: 2754
Date Added: 1/1/2018
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

The series of 1891, often called the "1891 Martha", has nearly the same obverse as the 1886 series.
Unlike the series of 1886, which came with four different styles of U. S. Treasury Seals, (small red plain, small red with scallops, large red with spikes & large brown with spikes), the 1891 note came with only the small red scalloped seal.
Silver Certificates were signed at bottom left by the Register of the Treasury and at bottom right by the Treasurer of the United States.
Unlike the series of 1886 which had 4 different signature combinations, the series of 1891 had only two.
The 1891 notes were signed by either William Starke Roscrans (served from June 8, 1885 to June 19, 1893) & Enos H. Nebecker (served from April 25, 1891 to May 31, 1893) or by James Fount Tillman (served from July 1, 1893 to December 2, 1897) & Daniel Nash Morgan (served from June 1, 1893 to June 10, 1897).
The reverse of the 1891 note was redesigned because the Treasury felt that it was too "busy", which would make it too easy to counterfeit. More open space was incorporated into the new design to help solve this problem.
The $1 Silver Certificates were the Nations second longest issued paper money, and as the name suggests, were backed by the U. S. Governments silver deposits.The notes could be redeemed at any time for silver from the United States Treasury.

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