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1 Dollar Silver Certificate, Blue Seal, No Motto
| Issuer | United States Treasury |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Size | 156 × 67 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is engraved and printed entirely in green, with the large word ONE at center flanked by two circular vignettes of the Great Seal of the United States: the reverse of the Seal at left, showing an unfinished pyramid surmounted by the All-Seeing Eye with the mottoes ANNUIT COEPTIS and NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, and the obverse of the Seal at right, bearing the heraldic eagle with shield, olive branch, and arrows. Elaborate guilloche scrollwork borders surround both medallions, with the numeral 1 repeated in each corner. |
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| Signature(s) | series 1935A - Julian & Morgenthau Regular issue without letter at lower right for a similar experimental note with red R at lower right see UNITED STATES OF AMERICA P-416AR for a similar experimental note with red S at lower right see UNITED STATES OF AMERICA P-416AS series 1935B - Julian & Vinson series 1935C - Julian & Snyder |
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The 1935 series ran longer and through more signature combinations than almost any other Silver Certificate issue — spanning from the New Deal through the early Cold War without a fundamental design change. The 1935A sub-series is the most historically layered: it coincided with the wartime R and S experimental notes, a controlled test the Treasury ran in 1942–43 to evaluate a new paper stock from a different supplier. Regular 1935A notes circulated alongside these experimental pieces without the public having any reason to distinguish them.
Julian served as Treasurer under both Morgenthau and Vinson, making his signature the thread connecting three distinct sub-series across two Treasury secretaries.