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I'm not into bills. Mostly I stick to coins but I jumped over to this forum while surfing and was wondering if anyone can tell me anything about the owl on the 1 dollar bill? Why it's there? What it is supposed to represent? I've heard it's a masonic symbol. For anyone who doesn't know about it, it's on the front of the bill, on the border around the top right numeral 1. Sitting on the top left curve of the border. Just wondering.  Edited by mwr1550
12/20/2011 9:37 pm
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Edited by Kefiroth
12/20/2011 10:24 pm
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Sure it's not a cat? Or an upside-down icicle about to form?
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My dad always told me that it was a spider.
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HAHAHA nice video Kefiroth actually made me laugh out loud  |
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A spider is what I was always told from way back when...cool video! (wiping coffee off of monitor)
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12/21/2011 08:22 am
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I suggest in order for me to understand this issue farther everyone send me all your dollars for me to study.  |
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I always assumed the engravers put the small detailsf in there to help distinguish between real and counterfit bills. There are small details on the other bills too. I suspect the owl symbolizes wisdom, keeping in the tradition of reusing classical motifs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AthenaEdited by allranger
12/21/2011 11:42 am
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As Sap pointed out in this thread, it's not an owl (or a spider or any other animal). It's just part of the background guilloche pattern on the note and is identical in size and structure to the top of the triangular structure seen elsewhere on the note. Why make such a big deal about a microscopic squiggle that looks vaguely like one thing or another depending on who looks at it? I mean, if you haven't noticed, there's a GIANT PYRAMID WITH A FLOATING EYE ABOVE IT ON THE REVERSE OF THE NOTE! That's enough weirdness right there in plain sight to occupy us all for years without needing to bring a magnifying glass into the discussion... |
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I mean, if you haven't noticed, there's a GIANT PYRAMID WITH A FLOATING EYE ABOVE IT ON THE REVERSE OF THE NOTE! |
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