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1 Santa Dollar
| Issuer | United States |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Standard Series 2003 Federal Reserve Note layout with a Santa Claus portrait vignette overlaid on a circular seal at centre, replacing the customary Washington portrait. Bears facsimile signatures of Treasurer Rosario Marin and Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snow, with guilloche underprint in green. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Series 2003 one-dollar reverse in green intaglio, with the obverse and reverse of the Great Seal of the United States in circular vignettes left and right respectively, flanking a large guilloche-patterned ONE denomination word at centre, above the inscription IN GOD WE TRUST. |
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The "Santa Dollar" is a novelty item — a privately produced, non-legal-tender curiosity sold as a seasonal gift or novelty, not an obligation of the United States Treasury. Despite the official-looking signatures of Treasurer Rosario Marin and Secretary John W. Snow, whose names appeared on genuine Federal Reserve Notes from 2003, this piece carries no monetary value and was never authorized by any government body.
Marin, notably the first immigrant to serve as U.S. Treasurer, held the post from 2001 to 2003.