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3 Dollars - Fantasy Banknote New York
| Issuer | Slick Times |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Political satire novelty note printed in black on cream paper, styled after a US Federal Reserve Note. A central oval vignette contains a caricature portrait of a screaming woman identified by the nameplate "RODHAM" at the base. Denomination numeral "3" appears in ornate foliate cartouches at all four corners, with a guilloche underprint circle enclosing the letter "Q" at centre-left, and a red overprinted seal overlapping the word "THREE" at centre-right. Two facsimile signature lines appear below the vignette, attributed to fictitious office-holders. |
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| Obverse lettering | 3 QUEER RESERVE NOTE 3 THE FEMINIST STATES OF AMERICA THIS NOTE IS BOGUS FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UCI8PUC2RUNVS? D. 10 Q FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI THREE UMA BALLBUSTER SECRETARY OF FEMINIST AFFAIRS 10 BELLA COSE PRESIDENT, SISTERHOOD OF WOMYN RODHAM 3 THREE DOLLARS 3 |
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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.