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3 Dollars - Fantasy Banknote New York
| Issuer | Slick Times |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Printer | Slick Times |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in black on cream paper, centred on an oval vignette of the White House, Washington, D.C., with a humorous "Whitewater Realty For Sale!" sign superimposed on the lawn. Denomination numeral "3" is repeated in corner cartouches, flanked by scrollwork ornaments, with the title "THE FEMINIST STATES OF AMERICA" arching across the top and "THREE DOLLARS" in bold lettering along the foot. A copyright notice and mail-order advertisement for the issuing company are printed in small text along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 3 THREE THREE 3 THE FEMINIST STATES OF AMERICA "IN 3 DOLLAR BILL WE TRUST" NOT! WHITEWATER REALTY FOR SALE! THE WHITE HOUSE THREE THREE DOLLARS 35 THREE © 1996 SLICK TIMES THIS ITEM AVAILABLE IN PADS OF 25 FOR $3.50 FROM SLICK TIMES, BOX 1710-H, VALLEY CENTER, CA 92082 FOR CREDIT CARD ORDER CALL 1-800-669-8444 |
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Slick Times was a small California novelty publisher that produced satirical "fantasy" currency throughout the 1990s, trading on the cultural moment when counterfeit-deterrence redesigns of U.S. federal notes generated widespread public commentary. The $3 bill format was a long-running American joke — the phrase "queer as a three-dollar bill" predates the 20th century — and several novelty printers exploited the gag simultaneously during this period.
No collector value is implied by survival rate; these were produced cheaply in quantity and discarded freely. Valley Center, California operation, not a print trade house.