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1 Hour
| Issuer | Kingdom of Time |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 1 ONE HOUR UNE HEURE KINGDOM OF TIME ROYAUME DE TEMPS IN TIME WE TRUST King of Time Artist of Time 1 TIME IS MONEY KINGDOM OF TIME ROYAUME DE TEMPS FALSIFICATION OF A TIME UNIT IS PUNISHED BY ENTRAPMENT IN THE PRESENT UPON AGREEMENT OF ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN THE TRANSACTION, THIS TIME CURRENCY UNIT WILL BUY ONE HOUR OF TIME OF ANY KIND OF ACTIVITY OR CONDITION ATLANTIC BANK NOTE COMPANY 1 01:00:00 |
| Reverse description | Central triskelion formed by three arms grasping tools, surrounded by botanical and entomological vignettes including a night-blooming cereus (Peniocereus greggii) and a mayfly (Ephemeroptera), with an hourglass motif. Bilingual legends in English and French frame the design. Fine engraved linework on a light guilloche underprint. |
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The Atlantic Bank Note Company, a small American security printer, produced this piece for the Kingdom of Time — a conceptual currency project rather than a sovereign issuer. Thomas Stebbins handled both the design and engraving, an uncommon combination that gives the intaglio work an unusual coherence. Time-based complementary currencies denominated in labor hours have a long history in the United States, running from Josiah Warren's Cincinnati Time Store in the 1820s through the Ithaca HOURS system launched in 1991.