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March 29, 2013 01:12 pm PDT
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When US money was nice to look at
US currency was beautiful, once upon a time, when it sported images of animals and symbolic statuary, rather than deifying its citizen-rulers by putitng presidents on the money as though they were kings. This 1901 $10 note (available on Wikimedia Commons in a 33.34MB, 6,454 5,784 JPEG!) is a case in point. United States [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/czZbzwX4KEc/story01.htm
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