Proof sheet for $10-10-10-20 Date backs, 1882-1908; June 13, 1908
date: label: Date made
content: 1882-1908
name: label: maker
content: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
notes: label: Description
content: Proof sheet for $10-10-10-20 Date backs, 1882-1908 for the series of 1882. The $10 note features a portrait on the left of Fessenden and an artisan on the right. The $20 note features an eagle with outstretched wings standing on a shield on the left and an eagle with folded wings beside a shield on the right. In 1908, Congress passed the Emergency Currency Act known as the Aldrich-Vreeland Act. The act authorized banks to secure the currency they issued by depositing U.S. Bonds or other securities with the U.S. Treasurer. The phrase "other securities" loosened the requirements until 1915 when the emergency presumably would be over. Prior to the emergency law, only U.S. Bonds were accepted as security for the notes that a participating national bank could issue. The face designs remained the same. Notice that the state seals have been dropped from the back design.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NNC.297219.20
label: accession number
content: NU*297219
label: catalog number
content: NU*297219.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Certified Proof
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.5 cm x 20.4 cm; 13 9/16 in x 8 1/16 in