The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 36, September 7, 2003, Article 11

REVERSIBLE BANKNOTE SPECIMENS

  This week I came across an interesting item in a paper
  money collection.  It was accompanied by an undated article
  which appears to be from Coin World circa early 1960s.
  It's a $5 "specimen" note produced by an inventor hoping to
  sell his idea to the U.S. government.

  "The dollars are "reversible banknotes," $1, $5, $10 and $20
  bills of a copyrighted design that has the same general
  appearance front or back, right-side-up or up-side-down.
  Invented by Rene Laflamme, a Hull, Quebec pharmacist,
  "reversible" money made its first appearance earlier this year
  as $1 notes on the mythical "Bank of Cadana," and the design
  was submitted for the consideration of Canada's central bank."

  Has anyone seen or heard of these before?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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