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A 15-cent banknote depicting
Union Army
generals
William Tecumseh Sherman
and
Ulysses S. Grant
, dated 1866 and intended as part of the
fractional currency
introduced to the United States following the
American Civil War
. As the portraits of Sherman and Grant for this note were being finalized, Representative
Martin Russell Thayer
pushed forward legislation specifically stating "that no portrait or likeness of any living person hereafter engraved, shall be placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, fractional or postal currency of the United States". As such, the Sherman-Grant note was never issued; examples of this note exist only as
specimens
.
Banknote:
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
(courtesy of the
National Numismatic Collection
,
National Museum of American History
)
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