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1862 "The Greenback" $1 Large Size Legal Tender Note Grades vf details FR-17a

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1862  The Greenback  $1 Large Size Legal Tender Note Grades vf details FR-17a
1862 "The Greenback" $1 Large Size Legal Tender Note Grades vf details FR-17a. Series 1862 Legal Tender bills were the first Federally issued notes. They came to be nicknamed greenbacks for the color of the back. Head of Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln,1861-1864, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1864-1873. He is probably best known to numismatists for his causing the motto "In God We Trust" to be adopted for our national coinage.