Affectionately called a "watermelon note" for the shape and color of the 0s on the back of the bill (they look like watermelons), the 1890 100-dollar treasury note (Friedberg number 377) is very rare.

U.S. Currency Auctions estimates that uncirculated $2 bills from 1890 could sell for up to $4,500, and uncirculated bills from nearly every year between 1862 and 1917 for at least $1,000.

about the size of a dollar bill, with holes punched in them. Getty Images Herman Hollerith's tabulator and sorter box, used to process the 1890 United States census Facing you are 40 dials ...

Developed by Herman Hollerith, a Census Bureau statistician, the machine was first used to count the U.S. census of 1890. It was so successful that Hollerith later formed the Tabulating Machine ...

In contrast, the next Democratic president, Grover Cleveland, was returned to office in 1892 by campaigning against the Republican-sponsored Federal Elections Bill of 1890, which would have ...

The economy is likely headed for a deflationary recession in which the Fed will aggressively fight deflation. Click here to ...

Billions of dollar bills circulate every day in the United States, and experts on numismatics- the study or collection of coins and banknotes- recommend that people take a close look at their cash ...

At the Dominican École Biblique in Jerusalem, Father Jean-Michel de Tarragon’s office is packed with a collection of glass-plate negatives covering research in the Holy Land from 1890 to the ...

Tennessee officials and the federal government say TSU is owed billions of dollars. That must be paid even while the school ...

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