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9 Dollars Lib Obstruction Note

Issuer United States
Year 2006
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Value 9 Dollars 9 USD = DKK 57
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Obverse description Political satire fantasy note in the style of a US Federal Reserve banknote, printed in black and green on cream paper. Central vignette comprises three caricatured portrait heads labelled Feinstein, Hillary, and Pelosi, flanked by large numeral 9s in ornate guilloche corners and a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seal at left. A green guilloche underprint panel at right carries the word NINE in bold letterpress.
Obverse lettering LIB OBSTRUCTION NOTE
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIKA
9 9
THIS NOTE IS AS WORTHLESS
AS THE NINE NITWITS THEREON.
LOOK AT THEM,
THEN PRAY FOR US ALL.
FEDERAL RESERVE
BANK OF
SAN FRANCISCO
CALIFORNIA
9 LIBS
IR72.5
9LIBS2MANY
c2006 A.ROSS
Feinstein Hillary Pelosi
9LIBS2MANY
NINE
SERIES 2006
9
THEY'RE NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT, AND INTELLECTUALLY
THEY CAN'T TELL THEIR FLAPJACKS FROM THEIR FALSIES.
9
NINE BOOBS
NATIONAL BANK
WASHINGTON, D.C.
NINE DOLLARS
Screamin' Dean
DNC Spokesmouth
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The "9 Dollars Lib Obstruction Note" is not a legal tender issue but a novelty or protest item — a category sometimes called an "obstruction note" or "lib note," produced outside the Federal Reserve system as a satirical or anti-authoritarian statement. These circulated in countercultural and libertarian communities during the mid-2000s, occasionally turning up in cash transactions as a form of street-level commentary. Possession is generally legal provided no attempt at passing them as genuine currency is made, though that line has been tested in court.

The $9 denomination is deliberate — no such denomination exists in U.S. monetary history, which is precisely the point.

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