Excellent quality and beautifully crisp -- virtually pristine! NICE! I was born in 1957 and so I was motivated to purchase an uncirculated 1957 $1 not long ago. Subsequently I delved into researching $1 notes with that year's date. Below are some facts of relative pertinence to your 1957-dated $1 note: The total number of $1 notes printed with a 1957 date was approximately 5.3 Billion. Of that number, a roughly approximate breakdown is: 2.8 Billion were "Series 1957", just over 1.7 Billion were "Series 1957 A", and just under .8 Billion were "Series 1957 B" such as yours. 1957-dated $1 notes were the very first U.S. paper currency to be produced on high-speed rotary presses. "Series 1957 B" (such as yours) were all printed in calendar year 1963, beginning in March. Based on the serial number of your note it would have been printed the last half of May, 1963. That means it was printed just 6 months prior to JFK's assassination. Very soon after your note was printed, (June 4th, to be exact), Congress officially passed Public Law 88-36 which halted all future Silver Certificate production. Accordingly, the "Series 1957 B" was the very last series of $1 currency to carry the title of Silver Certificate. The final currency notes of "Series 1957 B" were printed in June of 1963. Last but not least in significance, $1 notes with a "1957" date were the very earliest US currency to be printed with the "In God We Trust" motto. (It is interesting that there are some 1935 dated $1 bills that also include “In God We Trust”, but as strange as it seems -- those were actually printed well after 1957. That's because the US printed currency bills with the same date for multiple years without changing the year date. $1 notes with a date of "1935" were printed all the way up until October of 1963. The first 1935-dated $1 notes with that motto were in "Series 1935 G", and were not printed until March of 1962. (But all this gets further complicated because not all "Series 1935 G" $1 notes carry the motto, since that series “G” had already begun production in late 1961 without the motto.)) Anyway... Below is my 1957 note. Based on its "Series" and its specific serial number, it would have been among the earliest of the 1957-dated notes, and would have been printed and released in calendar year 1957.
Nice note! It’s crisp and it’s noted that it’s from the Rickey Collection. That’s bonus as well as a 1957-B series. Be sure to thank your son and have him send me one.
Really cool Rickey note! Congrats! You raised your son well LOL! Interesting story behind the 1957 SC's! Thanks for sharing @philologus_1!
