FEATURED WEB SITE

This week's featured web pages are from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing's web site. The pages describe the designs of the newly-released five and ten dollar bills.

http://www.bep.treas.gov/5note.htm

http://www.bep.treas.gov/10note.htm

At the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists' show in Pittsburgh last October, your editor had the pleasure of meeting and sharing a dinner table with Thomas Raymond Hipschen, the artist who engraved the portraits on the new series of notes, beginning with the $100 note in 1996.

Back in October, Hipschen's work on the new 5's and 10's had already long been completed, but the official release of the notes waited until this May. It's been worth the wait - the grainy newspaper illustrations of the designs couldn't hold a candle to the Real McCoy - there is no substitute for seeing the intaglio prints in person.

I have one nit to pick with the BEP pages - they label the sides of the notes "Obverse" and "Reverse" as if they were coins - the proper terms in syngraphic circles are "Face" and "Back".

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 23, June 4, 2000, Article 8