Trivia: What's special?

What's special about this note:



A few hints:

1) It's nothing to do with the serial number (star!).
2) It's historical.

I believe there are enough clues shown (in the note and the photograph(!)) to work it out.

John

 

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Please don't laugh, I am very new but taking a shot. Is the seal green? Don't know why that would be historic but it looks to be, shouldn't it be blue?

 

Other than the obvious - it was printed during Eisenhower's first term when Ivy Baker Priest and Robert B. Anderson were in office at the sime time - I don't spot any historical significance.

Silver certificates continued to be printed through two more signature combinations, and although this series had the highest printing total at 2,916,640,000, it wasn't that much larger than the runner-up 1928A series.

You aren't thinking about IBP being the first woman (of many) to serve as Treasurer of the United States are you?

 

No, let me clarify: there's something very historical about this specific note.

Not any 1957 note, not 1957 stars. This note. This specific one. It's not an error, nothing special about the serial number. But the note itself is special.

I don't own this note, and I have no clue how much one would have to pay for it, either, even if it were for sale.

John

 

It was in JFK's pocket when he was assassinated.......................................John

 

Okay, I'll bite. What photograph other than the picture of the note?

The stain on the note sure doesn't tell me anything about where it came from, or its special significance - if any.

 

I agree with this. The stains are, blood?

 

Georgia Neese Clark is the first female Treasurer of the United States. Prior to Georgia Neese Clark, William Alexander (W.A.) Julian was the last male Treasurer of the United States.

Ivy Baker Priest is the second female Treasurer of the United States, and she is the mother of Pat Priest, an actress best known for playing Marilyn Munster in the 1960s television show The Munsters.

 

That's wild... and pretty gruesome too.

I've seen the pics of JFKs blood stained shirt after they removed it from him (I won't post a link as it may be disturbing to some, but it is on the web if you do a Google image search for "JFK shirt").

I was pondering on the stain but thinking fire or flood damage, blood didn't occur to me. Good call.

 

Blew that, didn't I?

 

Nope, it's not blood, and the note is only indirectly related to JFK.

And the comment about the "photograph" meant for you to look at what's in the image that isn't on the note itself. Such as the glare over the IBP signature from the museum glass....

The stain you see is part of the history. And the note is a contemporary note for the historical event in question.

John

 

I'm sorry, I don't yet see how even a glare from glass above it can help identify the historical significance. Now I know my eyesight is going but I still don't even see a reflectoin that has any info.

 

me neither and I've had this in photoshop, trying to tweak levels, contrast, etc.

what museum?

was this in an atmospheric nuclear test?

 

This note was the first "test" note for iron content in the Great Lake of Michigan??


RickieB

 

Is there a reflection of an eyeball on the left border, about a quarter of the way up? :bigeyes:

 

Seems I'm making this hard, so I'll drop a few hints.

Yes, this is behind glass at a museum... in Kansas.
After further research, the fact that this is a STAR note is purposeful by the person who chose it. (BIG hint here!)
The note is contemporary to the event itself.
The stains are from being in water for a long time, then the note going through conservation efforts.

John

 

Ok, so it is important that it is a star note, so maybe it belonged to an astronaut? (Neil Armstrong)

Oh and this is what would have caused it to be remotely related to jfk seeing as he inspired this moon landing to happen. Maybe the bill was located on a part of the shuttle that was released into the ocean and recovered much later.

 

Dang! If this isn't correct, it ought to be! That'd be a great story!!!

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Dang! If this isn't correct, it ought to be! That'd be a great story!!!

I was gonna guess that it was is a flooded time capsule. But now that sounds too weak of a guess.

 

A museum in Kansas? Water stains? Stars?

Did it belong to Kansas born astronaut Ronald Evans? And was with him on Apollo 17?