The Dollar Bill

The dollar measure in usage today was designed in 1957. This “paper money” is made from a blend of cotton wool and linen. Look closely and you’ll see that it also incorporates reddish and bluish fibres made of silk as an anti-counterfeit measure.

The Sealing Wax of the United States Treasury is on the front. The top characteristics scales of measurement representing justness and the centre shows a stripe with 13 stars representing the 13 colonies. The cardinal Acts as a symbol of authority.

The Great Sealing Wax of the United States is shown with both the obverse and the contrary on the dorsum of the dollar bill. The dorsum of the sealing wax sit downs on the left side and incorporates a Pyramid. The presence of the pyramid is lit but the western side is dark, which some have got suggested demonstrates that we had not yet begun to research the West.

The Pyramid is uncapped, again possibly signifying that we were not yet finished with our undertaking of exploring the continenant. Prince Charles Thompson, Secretary of United States United States Congress in 1782, told Congress that the pyramid represented “Strength and Duration.”

An oculus sit downs inside the capstone, as an ancient symbol for deity and long used by Masons. John Hope Franklin was a Mason, but Sam Adams and Thomas Jefferson weren’t. Above that is the Latin phrase ANNUIT COEPTIS, which means, “God have favored our undertaking.” Below is the phrase NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, which intends “a new order for the ages.” Astatine the alkali of the pyramid is the twelvemonth 1776 in Roman numerals.

The obverse (front) of the Sealing Wax can be establish at national cemeteries. It also functions as the footing for Sealing Wax of the President of the United States. Over Franklin’s expostulations (he wanted the turkey), the Bald Eagle was chosen as our nation’s symbol for victory. The bird of Jove fearfulnesses no storm, being strong and smart adequate to soar up above it, and he have no crown – of import symbolism considering we had just won our warfare against King George.

The shield on the eagle’s thorax stands for United States Congress consisting of reddish and achromatic chevron with a bluish barroom above. The colours are from the American flag; the reddish stands for hardiness and valor, the achromatic stands for pureness and innocence, and the blue, vigilance, perseverance, and justice. The eagle’s beak throws a thread proclaiming Vitamin E PLURIBUS UNUM, meaning “one state from many people.”

The Eagle’s talons throws an olive branch, long considered a peace offering, and arrows, an instrument of war. This illustrates our sentiment: we desire peace but we are prepared to struggle for it. Originally, the Eagle’s beak was turned towards the arrows, but President Harry Truman ordered it turned toward the olive branch.

There were 13 original settlements in America. Thus 13 chevron on our flag – and also 13 stairway on the Pyramid, 13 letters in the Latin above it, 13 letters in “E Pluribus Unum,” 13 stars above the Eagle, 13 plumes of plumes on each span of the Eagle’s wing, 13 parallel bars on its shield, 13 leaves of absence on the olive branch, 13 fruits, and 13 arrows.

Placed prominently in the centre of the dollar bill, are the words IN God WE TRUST. Not in Latin, the language of our forebears, but in English, the language of America and its future.