US-$2-SC-1896-Fr.247
National Museum of American History
2013-03-03
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Image by Godot13
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
$2 Silver Certificate, Series of 1896 (Fr. Ref#247). The obverse depicts the allegory “Science presenting steam and electricity to Commerce and Manufacture;” engraved by G.F.C. Smillie. The reverse depicts Robert Fulton and Samuel Morse; engraved by Lorenzo J. Hatch.
Engraved signatures of Tillman (Register of the Treasury) and Morgan (Treasurer of the United States). The Series of 1896 United States Silver Certificates (issued in $1, $2, and $5 denominations) marked a significant departure from any previous design of U.S. paper currency. All three denominations depict neoclassical allegorical vignettes. The 1896 Silver certificates are often referred to as the Educational Series because of the name given to the $1 denomination (History Instructing Youth).
