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2 ANA Collector Currency
| Issuer | American Numismatic Association |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Cream and brown note printed on fine paper with intricate guilloche underprint throughout. At centre, a large ornate vignette carries the word TWO within a lathe-work rosette, flanked by radiating burst patterns; to the left, the circular ANA seal inscribed AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION / ORGANIZED 1891 / DE PROFUNDIS surrounds a torch-and-hand motif, and below it the serial number and series date appear twice. A red commemorative overprint reading CELEBRATING 100 YEARS 1891–1991 is applied left of centre, with the disclaimer NON-NEGOTIABLE / NO CASH VALUE / LEGAL TENDER ONLY AT AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION printed below it; two facsimile signatures of the ANA President 1989–1991 appear to the right, with the printer's imprint of the American Bank Note Company at the bottom centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION COLLECTOR CURRENCY ANA TWO 2 |
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The American Numismatic Association has issued souvenir currency for its annual conventions since the 1970s, and the ABNC-printed pieces occupy a particular niche among them — produced by a firm then in its final decade of operation before its 1990 bankruptcy and the subsequent dispersal of its archival plates and dies. The ANA pieces from this period were effectively prestige novelties printed by a company winding down a 130-year run as one of the pre-eminent security printers in the Western Hemisphere.
Not legal tender at any point, but genuinely printed on intaglio-capable equipment by craftsmen who spent their careers on sovereign currency contracts.