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Version of the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States printed in a 1909 U.S. Government booklet on the Great Seal. According to w: Henry A. Wallace, this was the version of the Great Seal reverse which caught his eye, causing him to suggest to President Franklin Roosevelt to put the design on a coin, at which point Roosevelt decided to put it on the back of the dollar bill. |
| Date | early 1900s |
| Source | Scanned from an illustration across from page 53 of The History of the Seal of the United States by Gaillard Hunt, 1909. |
| Author | Unknown author |
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