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1 BN Baltimore Note
| Issuer | Baltimore Green Currency Association |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Size | 152 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Be More Free - FREDERICK DOUGLASS "I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress." BALTIMORE NOTE Series 2011 |
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| Reverse lettering | BALTIMORE ORIOLE For use in the Baltimore community and at all BNote network businesses: BaltimoreGreenCurrency.org/bnote BNote Series 2011 ONE |
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The Baltimore Note was one of several complementary currency experiments that emerged in American cities during and after the 2008 financial crisis, explicitly designed to keep spending within defined local boundaries. The Green Currency Association tied the note's acceptance network to businesses meeting environmental or community criteria — a more prescriptive redemption framework than most local currencies attempted.
Richard Winchell's engraving work gives the note a visual seriousness unusual for a scrip issue of this scale. The BN designation — Baltimore Note — was the association's own unit, not pegged to the dollar at a declared ratio in any formally binding sense.