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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1201432, member: 24274&quot;]A couple more -- these are both from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Not from paper money, but special tax stamps. I&#039;ll just include enlarged vignettes, but the entire pieces are posted here:</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t143792/#post1049347" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t143792/#post1049347">http://www.cointalk.com/t143792/#post1049347</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The allegorical woman isn&#039;t too unusual until you examine all the tobacco paraphernalia around her. There&#039;s a box of Scotch snuff at the bottom and a bouquet of clay pipes beside her. But the other vignette has to be one of the oddest produced by the BEP: two portly gentlemen smoking and drinking. Until I really examined this with a loupe I couldn&#039;t figure what in the world they were doing. I think one is lighting a cigar off the other. But I welcome other guesses. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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