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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1120261, member: 24274&quot;]I’m going to call this an SEG pseudo-presentation, since I plan to periodically expand this thread with additional information.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the best kept secrets, to those who collect bank note engravings, is the Commemorative Panel series, issued by the US Postal Service. I consider it the most cost-effective and comprehensive library of intaglio vignettes, portraits and ornaments any collector could acquire. Yet, because most coin and paper money collectors associate the panels with stamps (if they’ve heard of them at all), they are largely ignored in the numismatic field. Which is a huge misfortune.</p><p><br /></p><p>The USPS began putting out these vertical cards in 1972, and the series continues, although the intaglio printing ceased at the end of 2001. They are similar to souvenir cards, but each panel contains a block of stamps and highlights the subject of the specific stamp with informative text and usually three thematically related engravings. Many of these vignettes were originally engraved as far back as the 1830s and they are often found on obsolete bank notes, foreign currency, stocks, bonds, and other securities. At least one appears on national currency: the Statue of Freedom on $5 Demand Note of 1861 (see CP373). For myself, these engravings are of much more interest than the stamps themselves. They were produced by many well known firms, chiefly American Bank Note Company, and span a vast range of U.S. history...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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