Question #20: Between 1870 and 1913 the BEP printed checks for the US government and its agencies featuring portraits of famous Americans. Identify the portrait on the checks printed by the BEP for the following agencies. You will get one point for each correct answer. Some answers may be repeated. Answer #20: See the images and information below. The answers are based on observed examples and it is possible that other answers are correct. If you think you have a different correct answer please post the item below. I will wait until this Sunday for other possible answers and post the results then. War Department - Henry Stanton. There are many different types of War Department checks with Stanton's portrait. This is one of them. Navy Department - Admiral Farragut Commissioners of the District of Columbia - George Washington Commissioners of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company - Abraham Lincoln Department of the Interior US Pension Agency - General Philip Sheridan Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago - General Henry Lawton Treasurer of the Philippine Islands - General Henry Lawton The Treasury of the Philippine Islands at Manila P.I. - William McKinley Department of Agriculture - J.M. Rusk Comptroller of the Currency - Samuel Dexter Treasurer of the District of Columbia - George Washington Geneva Award - Salmon P. Chase Isthmian Canal Commission - Henry Stanton Department of Justice - John Marshall Library of Congress - Salmon P. Chase 3% Loan of 1908-1918 - Abraham Lincoln Post Office Department Government Printing Office - John DeFrees US Treasurer Transfer Account - Samuel Dexter US-Canada Water Boundary Commission - Samuel Dexter The Rules: 1. The contest will consist of a series of 20 questions about the BEP and its history. 2. One question will be posted at a time and run for five days. The closing date and time will be listed with the question. 3. Answers must be private messaged to me prior to the deadline. Answers received after the deadline will not be counted. Please do not answer on the board. 4. The correct answer will be posted when the time for answering has expired. 5. The person who answers the most questions correctly will win the first prize consisting of (1) the Durst reprint of the BEP Centennial book, (2) a CD-Rom of the Pick Catalog of World Paper Money Modern Issues and (3) a $2.00 note from the BEP 2008 series. Second prize will be the same without the Durst reprint book. Third prize will only be a $2.00 note from the BEP 2008 series. 6. If there is a tie at the end, the prize will go to the person who answered the first question correctly in the least amount of time. 7. I am the sole judge as to interpretation of the rules and whether an answer is correct. Read more: http://www.cointalk.com/t209366/#ixzz20tL9zCIs
These are fantastic!! Thanks so much for posting them all, Lettow. Several portraits here that I hadn't seen before. I was pleased to find the standing Washington vignette I posted in an earlier thread (http://www.cointalk.com/t176715/) on one of these checks.
Hey Lettow, you mentioned in the OP, posted on 7/17: That Sunday would have been 7/22 and we're about to come up on the next Sunday 7/29... When can we get some results for this contest? B U M P!
Is there anybody out there...? Thread BUMP with video, and it features currency. :smile [video=youtube;aHN6AViJAvI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHN6AViJAvI[/video] Please quench our curiosity on the contest rankings... who won? Runners up??? Do tell!
I've always thought their music went best with accompanying visuals and their films are always very well shot and edited. If interested in this stuff, Live at Pompeii is available in full on YouTube. Others may be as well.
