To furnish a new and appropriate form of currency to circulate vicariously for the silver that the Treasury is buying in quantity (see p. 17) Secretary Morgenthau last week announced a new form of silver certificate. The same size as present dollar bills, it will be distinguished by an unfamiliar but appropriate design. On the back it will bear the well-known obverse likeness of the Great Seal of the U. S. (adopted in 1782), the eagle with E Pluribus Unum in its beak, a branch...
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