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41 THE CAPITOL DOME 1. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, "Volume of Currency in Circulation," http://www.federalreserve. gov/paymentsystems/coin_data.htm#volume. 2. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Engraving Fact Sheet. http://www.bep.gov/images/Engraving_Fact_Sheet.pdf. 3. Ibid. 4. Miscellaneous Die 11370, BEP Historical Resource Center; Post Office Die 704, BEP Historical Resource Center. 5. Treasury Department. History of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1862-1962 (Washington, DC, 1962), pp. 1-6. 6. U.S. Statutes at Large, 37th Congress, Sess. II, Ch. 142. 7. Treasury Department, 6-7. 8. Gene Hessler, The Engraver's Line (Port Clinton, OH, 1993), p. 99. 9. Hessler, p. 83. 10. Hessler, pp. 256-267. 11. Peter Bermingham, American Art in the Barbizon Mood (Washington, DC, 1975), p. 166; Hessler, p. 280; The Washington Times, "Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Salary is Higher than his Chief's," August 16, 1908. 12. Hessler, p. 265. 13. "Letters Received Relating to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1862-1911," National Archives and Records Administra- tion, R656, Department of the Treasury, Finding Aid A1, Entry 165. 14. Hessler, p. 265. 15. Hessler, p. 171. 16. Bray Hammond, Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War (Princeton, NJ, 1970), p. 291. 17. John Jay Knox, United States Notes: A History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the Government of the United States (London, 1885), pp. 89-90. 18. "Need of a National Paper Currency," The New York Times, January 6, 1862. 19. H.W. Brands, Money Men (New York, NY, 2006), p. 44. 20. William A. Richardson, The Public Debt of the United States with the National Banking Laws (Washington, DC, 1872), p. 35. 21. Dr. Franklin Noll, The Greenback, unpublished article at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 22. Simon Cox, Decoding the Lost Symbol (New York, NY, 2009), pp. 91-92. 23. Miscellaneous Die 1408, BEP Historical Resource Center. 24. Bowers, Q. David and David M. Sundman, 100 Greatest American Currency Notes (Atlanta, GA, 2006), p. 42. 25. Frank Calabrese, Jr., Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family (New York, NY, 2011), p. 315. 26. Miscellaneous Die 9881, BEP Historical Resource Center. 27. Memorandum from Director Joseph Ralph to Assistant Treasury Secretary Charles Norton, August 17, 1909. BEP His- torical Resource Center, 2.i.a.5. 28. Miscellaneous Die 4067, BEP Historical Resource Center. 29. Bowers and Sundman, p. 28. 30. Miscellaneous Die 4114, BEP Historical Resource Center. 31. "A New Silver Certificate: One of the Most Elaborately Designed Notes Ever Produced," The New York Times, July 14, 1896. 32."Artistic Silver Certificates." The Washington Post, De- cember 22, 1896. 33. Bowers and Sundman, p. 28. 34. "Banned in Boston!" Bank Note Reporter, January 2001, p. 49. 35. Bowers and Sundman, p. 28. 36. Ibid. Notes considered to be some of the most beautiful U.S. currency ever produced. 36 aN eNduriNG symBol The Capitol with its famous dome has stood as a powerful icon since it was completed more than 150 years ago. As the seat of government, the building has appeared on doz- ens of products, including official documents, mementos, allegorical illustrations, stamps, and—of course—currency. It has become incorporated into our country's shared con- sciousness as the embodiment of patriotism, democracy, and America itself. It has been, and will continue to be, a repre- sentation of the United States on billions of small pieces of paper circulating the globe. MARGARET RICHARDSON is the Collections Manager, under contract, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). This article was researched and written on her own time and does not represent the opinions of the BEP.