1 Dollar Silver Certificate, 'Educational Series'

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.