Giori press test note
Lincoln Memorial · uniface · grass green · RGMB1/0NSU
Historical and Issue Context
Identification: United States — Magna/Giori press test note — Lincoln Memorial (composite back) — grass green — uniface — Rothberg RGMB1/0NSU. The code is transcribed from the specimen filename, not from Friedberg.
The type: in the mid-twentieth century Gualtiero Giori developed multi-colour intaglio presses. The BEP ordered trials; 2012 Ontario County Historical Society notes (reprinted in The E-Sylum) place Geneva, N.Y. trials with American Can Company / Edgar L. Pigman. This sheet is not assigned to that hoard.1,2
Not to be confused with: the Giori note with cancelled Lincoln, Washington, and Grant portraits, or an issued $5 Federal Reserve Note. More context in the United States catalog.
Key Details Visible on the Note
- Printed side: Lincoln Memorial at centre; “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” below; “WASHINGTON, D.C.” at right; linear frame; blocks and “ONE” fragments in the corners — a plate collage, not an issued $5 reverse.
- Colour: a single grass-green ink in this photo.
- Reverse: blank (uniface).
- Serials: none. No Treasury seal or signatures.
Notes
1. The E-Sylum — American Can Company and the Giori test notes (opens in a new tab): reprint of Chronicles (Ontario County Historical Society), 23 December 2012.
2. Ontario County Historical Society (opens in a new tab): museum cited in that note; no inventory card for this piece was checked here.
3. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (opens in a new tab): the federal printer of record; it does not publish a catalogue of this variety.