Among recognizable company that often stands among the top of a collectors want list or in publications like Bowers and Sundmans <em>100 Greatest American Currency Notes</em>; the $5 Silver Certificate issued under the Series of 1896 represents the pinnacle of aesthetic excess that reached its truest expression in the twilight of the Nineteenth Century. Featuring a full-length vignette entitled <em>Electricity Presenting Light to the World</em> that feels vaguely similar to the triumphant splendor of Brumidis <em>The Apotheosis of Washington</em> with regards to the positioning of <em>Electricity</em> who represents the ascendant position of the United States in both international and scientific affairs. This design offers the viewer unmistakable symbolism that is hard not to appreciate and overlook. Even though this specimen has seen prolonged albeit even circulation, this is your chance to acquire one of the most iconic designs ever put to print by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing during the twilight of the Nineteenth Century when such compositions were the exception to an already lofty norm.
