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5 Dollars Silver Certificate, Blue Seal at right
| Issuer | United States Treasury |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., set within an oval cartouche and flanked by ornate scroll-work volutes at left and right. Denomination numeral '5' appears in guilloche panels at each corner, with 'FIVE' lettered in solid blocks at the lower left and lower right. The entire design is executed in green ink with fine lathe-work geometric patterns filling the border. |
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| Signature(s) | series 1953A - Priest & Anderson series 1953B - Smith & Dillon |
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By 1953, Silver Certificates were already obsolete in function — the Treasury had no intention of honoring them with actual silver coin at the teller window, and the fiction was formally ended in 1964 when redemption rights were suspended entirely. Congress finally terminated silver dollar backing for this series in 1963, stripping whatever residual meaning the "payable in silver" obligation still carried.
The 1953B signature pairing of Smith and Dillon is the scarcest of the three runs in this series, produced in significantly smaller quantities before the entire Silver Certificate program was wound down in favor of Federal Reserve Notes.