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hey everyone welcome to another top 10 list this week's top 10 list as you saw is the top 10 coolest reverses on us currency and i want to thank jrap170 for suggesting this he put it in one of my suggestions and i thought i always focus on the front of notes i never bothered to focus on the backs and you know there is a lot of really interesting backs on notes now the problem i had was trying to limit that to just 10. so let's get this out of the way and i'm gonna have to start with a couple honorable mentions um now for honorable mentions the main thing i was thinking is notes that you may not actually ever get to see in person and most certainly won't be able to own so i put those into the honorable mention uh because when you see the very first honorable mention you're gonna think it should have been number one this is the back of the 1878 10 000 bill 1878 10 000 bill that is incredible um that is there's just there's no words and that is just such an amazing back to our currency and uh yeah we probably aren't going to own one of those anytime soon i'm not even sure that there's any out in uh circulation that was the 10 000 even the 5000 is pretty cool and and it's interesting because even my book shows this back of the five thousand dollar bill just in horrendous shape with three major folds on it like that so yeah that's the front just uh for for what it's worth but uh yeah that ten thousand dollar note that is mind-blowing uh it's pretty hard to not include that on impressive backs when it comes to us currency all right what else do i have also on the honorable mention list i have treasury notes these are from 1890 the 1890 treasury notes also notes you're probably not gonna get your hands on you're talking the 100 and the one thousand dollar treasury note these are the watermelon notes you've got the 100 watermelon the zeros on the back look like watermelons uh if you look closely it wasn't supposed to be it was just the pattern and the way that our eyes perceive it so it wasn't intended to be a watermelon but that's just how everybody took it and if you're gonna have the watermelon you're also gonna have to have the grand watermelon which is the one thousand dollar note uh the one thousand dollar note has the same uh same design on the zeros like that giving the impression of three watermelons lined up those are the two 1890 treasury notes the watermelon and the grand watermelon obviously notes you're never gonna own yourself but still with very impressive backs notes that are known more for their backs than their fronts so we'll set those aside again on the honorable mention list notes that people have never even probably seen these are what are called national gold bank notes national gold bank notes actually had pictures of coinage on the back of them check that out that is just really neat a whole pile of change is what was printed on the back now they did make them in other denominations however they did use the same picture every single time and you'll notice the national bank notes these are 1870 is when these were these were done and you can see down here they're talking three known two known one known unknown if any are available those are on the hundreds on the what is the d50 uh five known one known yeah on the 20 you got a chance if you find one in fr2 a fair two it's still worth fifty five hundred dollars um yeah good luck probably not gonna find one of those you may get lucky enough to spot one at a show but uh yeah that was the 1870 uh gold treasury notes some of the other ones that made my honorary mention list um would be this here is the series 1918 50 national currency this is a federal reserve bank note um this one doesn't seem that impressive on the back you've got uh you've got a cruise ship here and then you also have a battleship on the back there like that but why i find this so interesting is this picture in the center i am quite certain that this might be one of the only us dollar bills that has palm trees yeah palm trees uh i guess this was uh this was done in honor of the panama canal you can see panama listed right there and that would explain the palm trees of course but i can't think of another note that has palm trees on it so i found that to be interesting and the last note that made the honorable mention i know i'm five minutes in uh the lowly two dollar bill yes you can still get these in banks today but when you think of the backs of our currency and you think of how detailed the modern two dollar bill is it's kind of out of place the amount of stuff that you see the amount of people in this note uh of course it's the uh declaration of independence signing that's on here it's just so much more intricate than you see on virtually any other note that we have so yeah i pretty much had to include this in the list when you think about what's on there anyway those are all my honorable mentions let's get down to the actual top 10. number 10 on my list it is one of my favorite recent notes it's the small head 100 bill smallhead 100 bill i always found the back of this really cool you've got independence hall back there i don't know if it's the the shading on the digits from dark to light i don't know if it's the curvature of it i don't know if it's the the pinnacle but i've always really liked the back of this bill it could simply be me going back to my childhood thinking that you know a hundred dollar bill is just oh that's a lot of money so seeing a bill like this always just kind of triggered that thing in the back of your head but either way the 100 bill featuring independence hall uh i think is one of the 10 best designs it is very iconic and it's something you can still get number nine number nine is a bill that is known because of its back this is a 1934 one dollar silver certificate and of course you guys know it as the funny back now how do i not include a note that's called the funny back on our top 10 list so i put this one at number nine now it wasn't known as the funny back when it came out uh the funny back had this design in 1928 and in 1934 but then starting in 1935 they changed the back design so from 1935 on if you started getting straps of singles and you had a lot of singles um you would notice that these would stick out they would have a funny back compared to the rest of the backs and if you try to find i mean if you're talking the 1940s for instance that's like trying to find notes from 1999 right now you just don't see them you can have 100 singles and you're lucky to find one so yeah these backs did stick out and that's how they got the nickname funny back because when you put them in a group they would definitely stick out and they certainly look a little different than what you're used to seeing that's number nine number eight i went with a 1917 one dollar legal tender this one is known as the saw horse now mine's got a little bit of schmutz right here in the middle but once again you've got this giant x pattern that says united states of america and uh back in the day if you were to lay two boards across each other in this fashion you would use that as a sawhorse you'd put whatever you were gonna cut right here to hold it up for you and off you go so this was known as the sawhorse and it was fairly detailed in its design once again though there's a note that that stuck out to me because it had a name based on the back of the bill like that i know there's a lot of them like that but for some reason this one always stuck out to me the sawhorse with that x pattern on the back from 1917. one dollar legal tender that's number eight number seven i've got this is from the second charter of national bank currency national currency um had three different charters the first charter was started in 1865 i want to say this particular 1862 probably would have been because this charter began in 1882 so the 1882 second charter featured an interesting aspect about the about the notes and that was the incorporation of the color brown so you've got the second charter brownbacks from national currency now the national currency of course had two pictures on the back you've got the eagle for representing the united states and then if you look on the other side each particular each particular state had their seal printed on the back of the node so this particular note is from decatur illinois so yes it has the eagle representing the united states but it also if you look real close says illinois uh state state sovereignty national union so that is the illinois state seal right there so that makes these kind of neat every different national bank notes gonna have a different seal here and of course they're gonna have a different number here because this big number here in the center is the charter number that that's the number that you see right there so that was the number of the charter that they were given so prominently you've got that but you've got brown ink on the side that's what makes these known as the brown backs having the two different types of seals definitely an interesting back of a note 1098 that was number seven number six i've got a another national currency this is a federal reserve bank note from the series of 1918. this is one dollar one dollar note and what makes this note so neat this one is called the flying eagle uh the flying eagle shows the eagle soaring holding the american flag in its talons uh the flying eagle note very reminiscent of the 1857 flying eagle penny i don't know my coins that well i think that's the right one right here um but yeah a flying eagle from 1918 showing the eagle soaring like that that's just one of the more iconic pictures you're going to see on the back of a note so that one definitely had to make the list as well 10 9 8 7 6 number five number five i have a pair of notes and it's weird that i actually have notes from this series this high on a list normally they're closer to number one this is the 1896 educational series note this is the one dollar bill from that series and i also have the five dollar bill from that series as well this is the actual five rather than the reproduction of the one and why do i have these notes on there as ornamental as the your fronts are they do have a very unique item on the back if you look at the back of the notes here's the one dollar bill the back of the note features george washington and this phone features martha washington as well so you've got george and martha on there but it's one of the few times that you'll see a president on the back of a bill that's what made this pretty interesting and the same thing happens with the five with the five dollar bill from 1896 you have uh ulysses s grant on the back of the bill and he's on there with general sheridan sheridan or sherman sheridan so you've got another president on the back of a bill uh you also have the raiders of the lost ark style wings on here that also i find pretty interesting but yeah i pulled these out here and put them on this particular list because they are the only bills i believe that you're gonna find a president on the reverse normally the presidents are always on the front but to see them on the back that makes these special that's how they ended up in that position number four now it gets a little trickier for number four um you can probably flip most of these in any different order you like uh i'm going with one that i do not have or have a reproduction of but it is on my list to pick up it is an 1886 five dollar silver certificate that's the front of the note right there 1886 five dollar silver certificate but what's cool is the back the back of this five dollar silver certificate let me just make sure i get the right year yep 1886. the back of this five dollar silver certificate shows five morgan silver dollars and that's just pretty cool when you're going to show it's almost like the bank teller was illiterate so just show them the back of the bill and they will know what to give you in change this is what five morgan silver dollars look like and this is what this particular bill is good for um yeah it's on my list you can see the price range for some of these notes so it's uh it's up there but it's not out of there so i i'll probably be getting one if i can find one in decent shape for a decent price once again that's the front of it right there 1886 five dollar silver certificate nothing better than actually putting the five silver dollars on the back number three on the list number three i'm going with the series of 1923 10 legal tender this particular note uh is known well it's a 10 even though it looks like a 20 because it's got andrew jackson on it this is known as the poker chip and it's called the poker chip but it's actually two poker chips when you look at it uh the two tens on the left and the right have the rays encircling them giving them the impression that they are poker chips and they're roughly the size of poker chips as well so when these are put down face down it definitely does look like two poker chips on there me being a poker dealer and a poker player i have an affinity toward all things poker this is not in my uh collection yet it is a rather pricey note i will be getting one of these it is on my wish list so when i do get one i'll make sure to bring that one out but anyway 1923 poker chip um another just amazing note a note known for its back more than anything else number two on the list i'm very partial to this note you guys know that if you've seen any of my lists uh this is from 1922 a 1922 20 gold certificate now back in 1922 you were supposed to turn this in for one ounce of gold um one ounce of gold is worth far more than this bill right now even though there are far more ounces of gold than there are these notes so get them while you can and of course what makes these notes cool the back they are not green they are this bright orange they call it gold but it's it's orange that's a rust orange color uh you've got this really cool seal for twenty dollars in the center showing the united the seal of the united states there um just a very intricate pattern very cool font on these and what makes it stick out so much is that color i like how you've got the bannering on the top like that to go with the bannering that is also on the front so that does pull the whole thing together like that is just a really cool neat to see because it's it's a very unexpected surprise when you turn the note over so that is my 1922 twenty dollar a gold certificate and last but not least on my list number one any guesses i went with the two dollar eight national currency this is a federal reserve bank note um the federal reserve bank note from 1918 has one of the most unique backs on it um we were going through world war one at the time which was not called world war one it was called the great war uh it wasn't known as world war one until world wars two started so the great war the war to end all wars uh world war one why is that so important because on the back of this note they wanted to show america's military might america's military might they showed the world war one battleship the uss new york that is just an impressive back on a note now the reason i put this at number one is because when you compare the price of the two dollar bill to the prices of other notes in this particular series uh the two dollar bill has a very high demand because of the imagery on the back of this note and because of that it does skew the price compared to some of the other notes so that is why i went with the battleship as my number one note if you're a veteran i'm sure this is one you're going to want to have in your collection as well uh it's just something that you don't get to see every day it's not very often you can have imagery like this in your pocket at the time but as part of your as part of your uh collecting hobby as well that that's what makes this so intriguing the 1918 federal reserve bank note featuring the battleship uss new york and that's number one on my list so if you agree with my list go ahead and give me a thumbs up if you think i missed a bill which i'm sure i did there is no way i couldn't have missed something um go ahead and leave that down in the comments because not only me but other people that read the comments would love to hear what you think should be on that list as well uh if you guys like what you see and you want to see more go ahead and leave a like and give me a s a sub and i want to thank j rap 170 once again for helping me out with this list he gave me the idea so make sure to check him out as well guys thank you very much for watching i'll see you again next week