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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1141532, member: 12789&quot;]<b>&quot;Meditation&quot; on the Series 661 $5 MPC</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This work is titled &quot;Meditation&quot;, curiously it was used nearly 65 years after it was engraved:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/usampc6615ddtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/usa/usampc6615d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left">GFC Smillie was known as Fred to his associates, in a little over a 50 year career he produced a prolific number of fine engravings, and has to be responsible for more designs on US currency than any other single engraver.&nbsp; He retired from the BEP in 1922 and returned to ABNCo where he worked until his demise in January 1924.&nbsp; He also engraved many portraits for foreign notes, and I will work on those in the future for this presentation.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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