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(via Fr. 379a $1000 1890 Treasury Note PCGS Apparent Extremely Fine | Lot #18129 | Heritage Auctions)
Fr. 379a $1000 1890 Treasury Note PCGS Apparent Extremely Fine 45.
The story about United States Treasury Notes begins in the 1870’s with monetary policy that greatly affected the use of silver in coinage. First, silver was demonetized in the Coinage Law of 1873. This move was set about by a Congress that was largely for the Gold Standard. The timing however could not have been worse as a depression in Europe sank its claws into the American economy. Western Senators were hard pressed to take care of their constituency, which was hit hard by falling silver prices in addition to the recession…
(via 1783 Nova Constellatio Pattern Quint, Silver, Type Two AU53 PCGS | LotID #286001 | Heritage Auctions)
Unique 1783 Quint, Type Two, AU53 - Tremendously Important Nova Constellatio Pattern, Representing the Historic Inception of Decimal Coinage…
Bank note contains Kate Gleason’s signature, who was the bank’s president. Kate Gleason gave the first $20 bank note to Anna Howard Shaw who kept it in a leather purse. When Anna Shaw died, the bank note and purse were returned to Kate Gleason’s sister, whose companion gave it to Rev. Charles J. Lavery, C.S.B., and who in turn gave it to St. John Fisher College. St. John Fisher College, Lavery Library Collection (via Kate Gleason)
(via US regulator: Bitcoin exchanges must comply with money-laundering laws | Ars Technica)
The federal agency charged with enforcing the nation’s laws against money laundering has issued new guidelines suggesting that several parties in the Bitcoin economy qualify as Money Services Businesses under US law. Money Services Businesses (MSBs) must register with the federal government, collect information about their customers, and take steps to combat money laundering by their customers.
The new guidelines do not mention Bitcoin by name, but there’s little doubt which “de-centralized virtual currency” the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) had in mind when it drafted the new guidelines. A FinCEN spokesman told Bank Technology News last year that “we are aware of Bitcoin and other similar operations, and we are studying the mechanism behind Bitcoin…”
starting to sound like real money…
I don’t want to go to sleep again.
Winsor McCay, from Little Nemo in Slumberland, published in the New York Herald, 1906.
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5-cent US postal currency, by United States Postal Service, 1862
Five-cent US Postal Currency, first issue, featuring Thomas Jefferson. Gold, silver and copper coins were hoarded at the start of the Civil War and postage stamps became a popular form of currency; however the adhesive back was a serious impediment. On July 17, 1862, Congress authorized printing of Postal Currency notes in the denominations of 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents. These notes could be redeemed for postage stamps or for a US bank note in the amount of five dollars or more. The Postal Currency was succeeded by Fractional Currency in 1863.
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Navy Diver (by Wooway1)
Walter Guess, 1942 (by State Library of Queensland, Australia)
Description: A Christmas card sent by Sargeant Walter Guess, 41st Division, U.S. Army, Rockhampton on which he wrote ‘Dear Ann, I would like to give you this greeting in person, but as I can’t do that a card will have to be the next best thing. The picture is me on my way fishing it was the day we caught the catfish I told you about. Sincerely Walt’. (Description supplied with photograph)
Macy’s Prepares Floats For Thanksgiving Day Parade
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade staff inflate the Kermit the Frog balloon in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on November 21, 2012 in New York City.
The 86th annual event is the second oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the U.S.
Photo by Ramin Talaie/Getty Images
