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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 980320, member: 26030&quot;]That is gorgeous!!!&nbsp; Great pickup.&nbsp; I have a $5 note from 1776 note myself.&nbsp;&nbsp; I love the color on yours though!!!&nbsp;&nbsp; Can I ask you how much that sold for? (just curious)&nbsp; I think these old notes are undervalued in the marketplace.</p><p><br /></p><p>The leaf motif on the back was an anticounterfeiting measure inventing by Ben Franklin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s funny but after these notes were produced they rapidly lost their legal tender value (since the continental congress didnt have money to actually back the currency with gold/silver as promised).&nbsp; In a few years after issue it took about $500 in currency to obtain $1 in silver coin&nbsp; ...&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Much later (sometime in the 1780s) congress passed a resolution that they would pay $1 in silver coin for every $100 in currency notes brought to them.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ahh the joys of fiat currency!&nbsp;&nbsp; Did the US learn it&#039;s lesson ... unfortunatly no.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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