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| Issuer | Banknote Designs (Mauro Aurelio) |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette with an engraving-style portrait of George Washington against a large guilloche underprint numeral "10". The word HAWAII is printed vertically on both left and right margins. An orange circular seal for Banknote Designs appears at lower right, with the designer's facsimile signature below the portrait. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of Mount Vernon, the Virginia plantation estate of George Washington, set within an ornate engraved frame with fine guilloche border work. Denomination numerals and geographic overprint HAWAII appear in the margins flanking the central design. |
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A modern fantasy or commemorative piece issued under Mauro Aurelio's Banknote Designs label, printed by Gammaprint in Luzern. These are not legal tender and have never circulated — they occupy the same collector niche as artistic cinderellas, produced with care for the hobbyist market rather than any monetary authority. Gammaprint handles short-run security-style printing for similar projects, which is why the physical production quality tends to exceed what the item's non-official status might suggest.
The "Hawaii Silver Certificate" framing references the genuine WWII-era U.S. overprinted Hawaii notes — a legitimate historical series, but this piece has no connection to that issue beyond the aesthetic homage.