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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mackwork, post: 1552955, member: 35676&quot;]Really nice &quot;story notes&quot; in this thread!</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like some of the old US notes for the stories that they tell. My favorite is my 1896 one dollar note.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse of this &quot;History Instructing Youth&quot; note shows a panoramic view of early Washington, D.C. viewed from the Virginia side of the Potomac River, with the Capitol building and the Washington Monument in the landscape. In wreaths across the top, left and right sides are the names of prominent Americans throughout our nation&#039;s early history, including Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Farragut, and many others. On the far right rests an open book, with the beginning of the Constitution of the United States. The reverse has portraits of&nbsp; Martha and George Washington.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/mackwork/Coins/1896EduObvA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/mackwork/Coins/1896EduRevA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The engraving work is fantastic in my opinion, and the text of the Constitution is quite legible with magnification:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s205/mackwork/Coins/Educational_zps3b6f2437.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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