United States · Silver Certificate
$1 · Silver Certificate · Series 1957 B
Face with Washington, a blue Treasury seal, and blue serials; back with the Great Seal and the motto IN GOD WE TRUST. Series 1957 B, serial S35513454A.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P#419b · Fr. 1621
- Serial number
- S35513454A
- Signatures
- Kathryn O'Hay Granahan (Treasurer) and C. Douglas Dillon (Secretary of the Treasury)
- Condition
- About uncirculated, unslabbed (private collection)
- Printage
- Series 1957 B; Greysheet cites about 718,400,000 notes for Fr. 1621. It was among the last silver-certificate issues before the BEP stopped printing them.
Face
Back
The note
The Series 1957-B $1 Silver Certificate (Pick 419b, Friedberg 1621) is one of the last notes of this class the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced before the dollar moved entirely to green-seal Federal Reserve Notes. The black face with blue seal and serials carries George Washington in an oval and the legend SILVER CERTIFICATE in the upper arc. The text promises a deposit of silver in the Treasury and payment of ONE DOLLAR in silver to the bearer; at lower left it notes that the certificate is legal tender. The blue circular Treasury seal sits at right, over WASHINGTON, D.C. The signatures are Kathryn O'Hay Granahan and C. Douglas Dillon; the printed series, 1957 B, sits beside the Secretary. Blue serials S35513454A repeat at upper right and lower left (SA block). Plate positions H2 and H751 appear at the upper-left and lower-right margins. The green back shows the central ONE with IN GOD WE TRUST above, the Great Seal of the United States in the side medallions — the unfinished pyramid at left, the eagle at right — and ONE DOLLAR below; reverse plate 418 is printed at lower right. This collection piece, in about-uncirculated condition and unslabbed, is shown in a sleeve.
Scarcity and printage
The 1957-B sub-series (Pick 419b, Fr. 1621) is common: Greysheet cites about 718 million notes. It closes the $1 silver-certificate line; the market treats circulated examples as plentiful and reserves premiums for high grades, star replacements, and scarce blocks. This record does not invent a printage by serial block.
Population
A PMG or PCGS census for serial S35513454A has not been independently verified. The note is shown in a sleeve, unslabbed.
Sources
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Bank Note Museum — P-419, $1 Silver Certificate, Series 1957–1957B
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419b: Series 1957 B, Granahan and Dillon signatures; blue seal and serials.
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Greysheet — Fr. 1621, 1957B $1 Silver Certificate
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Small-size type; about 718,400,000 notes cited.
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U.S. Currency Education Program — History of U.S. Currency
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Silver certificates from 1878; redemption in silver until 1968.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing — History
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Silver Certificates from 1878; the full Great Seal on the 1935 $1.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing — FAQs
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United States Notes: first national paper (1862); last placed in circulation 21 January 1971. Series 1934 $100,000 Gold Certificate.
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American Numismatic Society — A History of American Currency
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Massachusetts 1690 as the first Western public paper; the 10 percent tax and the National Banking Act of 1863.
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Newman Numismatic Portal — Massachusetts, 10 December 1690
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£7,000 in Colony or Old Charter Bills; first authorized public paper currency in the Western world.
- Bank Note Museum — United States (opens in a new tab)
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Bank Note Museum — Confederate States of America
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February 1864 issue: Pick 64–73, including the $20 P-69.