Among the most iconic of designs ever put to print by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, the Series of 1896 $2 Silver Certificate stands among exceptional company with its $1 and $5 counterparts. Although some may consider it to be the proverbial "middle child" compared to its peers, the design is no less iconic or complex and aptly demonstrates the rapidity of new inventions and technology finding their role in American life amidst the rapid technological progress of the period. A fact symbolically brought to life on this evenly circulated piece thanks to the unmatched skill of the Bureau of Engraving & Printing and engravers such as Charles Schlecht and G.F. Smillie at the close of the Nineteenth Century.
