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5 Dollars Hawaii Silver Certificate
| Issuer | BanknoteDesigns (Mauro Aurelio) |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio-style oval vignette of a bearded male portrait identified as Hughes, set within a laurel wreath underprint, against a fine guilloche background with large numeral "5" corner pieces. HAWAII overprints appear vertically on both side margins, with a red circular BanknoteDesigns seal at right. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the U.S. Supreme Court building rendered in green intaglio-style engraving within an oval frame, captioned SUPREME COURT below. Large "HAWAII" overprint spans the face diagonally in bold block letters. Corner pieces carry numeral "5" and denominational legends on all four sides. |
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Mauro Aurelio's Hawaii Silver Certificate is a fantasy note — no such instrument was ever issued by any governmental or banking authority. Aurelio, working under the BanknoteDesigns imprint, produces high-quality intaglio-style pieces through Gammaprint in Luzern, a Swiss security printer with legitimate commercial credentials. The "Silver Certificate" framing borrows deliberately from the U.S. Treasury series retired in 1964, applying that idiom to a jurisdiction — Hawaii — that was a U.S. territory until 1959 and never issued its own currency independently.
The one genuine historical hook: Hawaii did receive a distinct wartime overprint on U.S. Federal Reserve Notes in 1942, making "Hawaiian paper money" a real numismatic category. Aurelio is clearly working in that shadow.