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20 Dollars Federal Reserve Note; Brown Seal - Hawaii
| Issuer | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Green and white intaglio print with a central vignette of the White House seen from the north, surrounded by fine guilloche underprint. A bold black "HAWAII" overprint runs across the reverse, applied as a wartime emergency measure. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAWAII WHITE HOUSE TWENTY DOLLARS |
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Issued under the authority of Executive Order 9press authority following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii overprints were a wartime contingency measure, not a standard currency series. The brown seal and "HAWAII" overprints on both faces allowed the Treasury to declare the notes invalid if the islands fell to Japanese occupation — a targeted currency cancellation that could be executed without disrupting the mainland money supply.
The 1934-dated series was already in circulation when the overprinting program began in 1942. Military and civilian personnel in Hawaii were required to exchange their regular Federal Reserve notes for the overprinted issues, making ordinary bills illegal tender on the islands.