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1 Dollar - Movie Prop
| Issuer | United States |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar 1 USD = EUR 0.85 |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of George Washington in an oval guilloche frame, flanked by ornamental leafy borders with large numeral 1 at each corner. A Federal Reserve district seal appears to the left of the portrait with the overprint COPY in red. Top border carries the legend MOTION PICTURE USE and MOVIE PROP USE ONLY; NOT LEGAL TENDER appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 ONE MOVIE PROP USE ONLY 1 ONE IN GOD WE TRUST ONE THE GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES 1ONE ONE DOLLAR 1ONE |
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Movie prop currency occupies a specific legal niche in the United States — the Prop Money Act and longstanding Secret Service guidelines require that prop bills be visibly distinct from genuine Federal Reserve Notes, whether through size, single-sided printing, or explicit "NOT LEGAL TENDER" overprinting. Notes that too closely replicate genuine currency have been seized on set and occasionally traced into actual circulation when productions failed to account for all copies after filming.
The 2013 date likely ties this to a specific production run by one of a handful of prop houses — Independent Studio Services and Earl Hays Press being the most established — though without a maker's mark, attribution is difficult.