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1 Dollar Silver Certificate, 'Educational Series'
| Issuer | United States Treasury |
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| Year | 1896 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 ONE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THIS CERTIFIES THAT THERE HAS BEEN DEPOSITED IN THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES ONE SILVER DOLLAR Payable to the Bearer on demand. WASHINGTON. D.C SILVER CERTIFICATE |
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| Reverse lettering | UNITED STATES 1 ONE DOLLAR SILVER CERTIFICATE |
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The Educational Series of 1896 is widely regarded as the most ambitious artistic program ever attempted by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing — and the public largely hated it. Complaints poured in about the allegorical female figures, considered by many subscribers to be insufficiently clothed for a currency note. The backlash was direct enough that the Treasury abandoned the large-note artistic experiment entirely when the series was redesigned.
Charles Burt, who engraved the reverse, was in his eighties and near the end of a career spanning decades of BEP work. Alfred Sealey completed portions he could not finish.