Friedberg 314. 1886 $20 Silver Certificate. PMG About Uncirculated 50. The Series of 1886 Silver Certificates, which were first printed in 1887, have at the center a portrait of the late Daniel Manning, who had served as secretary of the Treasury from March 1885 to March 1887, resigning due to ill health. He passed away on December 24, 1887. Similar to the depiction of the recently deceased Thomas A. Hendricks on the related $10 Silver Certificate, the $20 honored a man whose memory was still fresh when the notes were first issued. The portrait was engraved by Lorenzo Hatch. To the left a seated woman holds a cherry tree (?) branch, with a cornucopia overflowing with agricultural products at her feet, a vignette named Science by the BEP. To the right a seated mechanic holds a sledgehammer. This Rosecrans-Huston signed variety displays a large brown spiked Treasury Seal at left. The ornately designed back is filled with rich green engraving with drop-out white letters and a bow-tie design near the center, the last emblem suggesting the name "Diamond Back Note" to some. D.M. Cooper and George U. Rose were the engravers.The presently offered example displays bright, lightly handled paper and a darkly printed and well framed design. PMG has graded no example of this catalog number above the About Uncirculated range with this note being the second finest they have seen. One other example resides in an About Uncirculated 55 holder. <em>From our (Bowers and Ruddys) sale of August 1978, lot 2176; Bowers and Ruddys Fixed Price List of February 1980; </em><em>our (Bowers and Ruddys) sale</em><em> of June 1980, lot 5017; </em><em>our (Bowers and Ruddys) </em><em>sale of April 1981, lot 4254; Currency Auctions of Americas sale of January 1997, lot 2960; Lyn Knights sale of August 2003, lot 1977. </em>
