Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/"Educational Series" $2 Silver Certificate, 1896

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Reason: Very high quality; good EV. This image replaces a much smaller and lower quality image(s) of the exact same design.
Articles in which this image appears: Educational Series
United States two-dollar bill
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Image by Godot13)
From the National Numismatic Collection, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution.

Support as nominator --Godot13 (talk) 01:57, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks great to me. Rreagan007 (talk) 05:18, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The bills aren't straight. I thought it was an optical illusion at first. Is there a way to correct this? – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 21:28, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. It should be fixed now. There are some instances where the front and back may be off, in which case the image (not the edge of the paper) is used as the anchor.--Godot13 (talk) 00:29, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. So beautifully done, good job. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 07:42, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support, with a question: I assume the red and blue marks are the threads that were added to the paper used to print U.S. Bills as an anti-counterfeit technique? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:12, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are correct. They are silk fibers embedded during the process of making the paper. U.S. Notes still have these fibers but there are very small in modern notes. Anti counterfeiting designs in the 1940s through 1970s proposed some fairly radical changes to notes that were never adopted (e.g., the use of randomly disbursed silver thread, fully colorized notes)--Godot13 (talk) 19:42, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]