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5000 Dollar Banknotedesigns Edition
| Issuer | Banknotedesigns (Mauro Aurelio) |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio-style oval vignette of Martin Luther King Jr., framed by laurel sprays and captioned KING, set against fine guilloche underprint. Denomination 5000 in large numerals at all four corners; a circular Banknotedesigns counterfoil seal appears at lower left, with a blue guilloche overprint numeral at right. Vertical I HAVE A DREAM inscription runs along both lateral borders. |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette in green intaglio tones renders Martin Luther King Jr. seen from behind, arms outstretched before a vast crowd at the 1963 March on Washington, with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool receding into the distance. Denomination 5000 occupies all four corners with ornate scroll cartouches bearing FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS vertically at each side. A single line of fine-print redemption text runs along the lower margin. |
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Gammaprint in Luzern produced this piece for Banknotedesigns, a one-man operation run by designer Mauro Aurelio. It belongs to no monetary system and was never intended to. Fantasy notes of this type occupy a small but persistent corner of the collector market — produced primarily to demonstrate design craft, often acquired by collectors interested in the aesthetic conventions of banknote typography and intaglio-style printing rather than any issuing authority behind them.
Aurelio is the designer and effectively the issuer simultaneously, an unusual conflation that removes the usual separation between creative and institutional authority.