***Auction Highlight*** 1880 $20 Legal Tender Note FR#+147 Graded vf25 NET By PMG. Depicted on the face is a ...

***Auction Highlight*** 1880 $20 Legal Tender Note FR#+147 Graded vf25 NET By PMG. Depicted on the face is a profile portrait of Alexander Hamilton, differently styled from that on the $2 Legal Tender Note, Series of 1862. On the right side is the standing goddess Liberty, holding a shield aloft with her left arm, with a walking stick in her right, and wearing a helmet topped with an eagle. The allegory was taken from a drawing by John W. Casilear, who studied art under Asher B. Durand and Peter Maverick, and who in the 1850s was a partner in the bank-note engraving and printing firm of Tappan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co. His nephew George W. Casilear joined the National Currency Bureau in 1862 and later held the post of chief engraver of the BEP. During this era there were many different representations of a goddess representing America, sometimes called Liberty (often with a liberty pole), sometimes called Columbia, or America, or another designation.