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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 812055, member: 19065&quot;]You got my approval on that engraving! I dig it. :smile</p><p><br /></p><p>Is that Gold Certificate one of your own notes as well? </p><p><br /></p><p>In my new *signed* copy of Hessler&#039;s,<i> Comprehensive Catalog of US Paper Money</i> (6th Edition), I read that just &#039;42,000 of these notes were issued and were not for general circulation but for transactions between Federal Reserve Notes&#039;, so is your note considerably rare? And is the SN considered low by the surviving populations of these notes? Is there any interesting back story to how you got a note like this?</p><p><br /></p><p>I also poked around Google a little regarding Wilson engravings and portraiture:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.raabcollection.com/category/Presidential/Woodrow-Wilson-autograph.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.raabcollection.com/category/Presidential/Woodrow-Wilson-autograph.aspx" rel="nofollow">The Raab Collection</a> web site has a 1915 engraving by a William Barmore that looks very similar to G.F.C. Smillie&#039;s portrait used on the 100,000 note.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an example of this note&#039;s portrait engraving on Flickr from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodrowwilsonhome/3727120731/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodrowwilsonhome/3727120731/" rel="nofollow">Woodrow Wilson Family Home Rehab Project</a>&nbsp; Maybe one of those BEP modern repro prints from original dies?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.woodrowwilson.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.woodrowwilson.org/" rel="nofollow">The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum</a> may also be a resource worth searching/contacting regarding the provenance of engravers or artists who may have worked on these images or based them on specific portraits, of which there are many of him in this particularly 3/4 portrait.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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