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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1618295, member: 6986&quot;]One sold in the Heritage sale at 2012 FUN for $402.50.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were salesman&#039;s samples to show off Rawdon, Wright, Hatch &amp; Edson&#039;s printing capabilities to banks that issued notes during the obsolete era prior to the Civil War.&nbsp; RWHE was not in the ink business so it is doubtful that these were used to show anyone in the US government the green ink.&nbsp; They certainly did not show it to the US Mint which has never had anything to do with printing US paper money.</p><p><br /></p><p>The significance of the green tint background is that it made it harder to alter notes because doing so would disturb the green print.&nbsp; It is the background tinting that is patented by RWHE not the ink itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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