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United States Series 1934A 10 Dollars North Africa Silver Certificate with yellow Treasury seal, Friedberg 2309, graded PCGS 35 Very Fine, featuring portrait of Alexander Hamilton.

United States 1934A - 10 Dollars North Africa Silver Certificate (Friedberg 2309), PCGS 35 Very Fine

Issued primarily for use by United States military personnel operating in North Africa and the Mediterranean theater, these notes reflect the logistical and financial complexities of global conflict. The yellow seal served as a rapid visual identifier, allowing for swift demonetization if necessary. Although the emergency cancellation authority was never exercised on a wide scale, the series stands as a tangible artifact of wartime contingency planning. Read more →

United StatesSilver Certificate193410 DollarsPCGS 35 Very Fine Silver CertificateNorth Africa issueYellow Treasury sealSmall size banknotePortrait of Alexander Hamilton10 DollarsBureau of Engraving and PrintingNew York Federal Reserve DistrictFriedberg 2309Second World War emergency issueUnited States wartime currencyEmergency seriesHistoryUnited States19341934APCGS 35Very FineMuseum Grade
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1976 Bicentennial 2 Dollars — Richmond District, Francine Neff courtesy autograph on Jefferson note, PMG 66 EPQ Gem Uncirculated
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United States 1976 — The Bicentennial $2 Note Collection

The United States Bicentennial of 1976 marked the nation’s 200th anniversary of independence and became one of the largest coordinated public celebrations in American history. Every federal agency was asked to contribute something lasting and symbolic. For the Treasury Department, that contribution was the revival of the dormant $2 bill — a denomination not printed since 1966 — as the only circulating paper-money commemorative ever issued by the United States.

1943 signed Patriarchal letter by Cyril IX Moghabghab, Alexandria
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“Behind the Curtain in Alexandria” — Cyril IX Moghabghab & a 1943 Patriarchal Letter · Melkite Politics in Wartime Egypt

On 17 September 1943, in the Fleming–Ramleh district of Alexandria, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Cyril IX Moghabghab issued a letter that blends religion, politics, influence, and wartime diplomacy. What appears at first glance to be a pastoral response to a trusted physician is, in content, a coordinated political intervention executed from inside the Patriarchal chancery at the end of the Second World War.

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Banknote Security and Insider Risks in the Colonial Age

The same principles held across the Atlantic. In the United States, before the Civil War, hundreds of state-chartered “wildcat banks” issued their own paper, often printed by private engravers far from the issuing institution. Oversight was weak, and distance invited abuse. In Michigan during the 1850s, an engraver for the Bank of Tekonsha secretly ran extra $1 and $5 sheets and sold them to brokers. Those unauthorized notes blended into circulation until the bank collapsed — and the extras were found stacked in his attic. A few years later, in Philadelphia, thieves stole genuine paper from the American Bank Note Company and printed $2 notes of the Mechanics Bank of Pennsylvania. Because the stock and engraving were authentic, the forgeries circulated for months before discovery. The scandal pushed ABN to introduce serial-controlled specimen stamping and tighter material audits — measures that became global standards in security printing.

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