Editor’s Note: For nearly 70 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.
The creation of the Great Seal of the United States, featured on the back of the $1 Federal Reserve note, was related by Charles Hubbard in the August 1964 issue of Coins.
“It is doubtful that the founders of our country thought they would be responsible for the design for the reverse of our dollar bill — the obverse and reverse of the United States
