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File:US Postal Currency 5 cent 1862 1863.jpg, featured

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•  Info A high resolution scan of a Civil War era 5 cent note created, uploaded and nominated by Swtpc6800 -- Swtpc6800 (talk) 05:52, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Swtpc6800 (talk) 05:52, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
•  Comment This is a first issue Postal Currency note and is in excellent shape for being 150 years old. Scans of this resolution are near impossible to find. This was scanned at 720 dpi. People horded all of the gold and silver coins during the Civil War so the Post Office was authorized to issue small denomination paper currency to facilitate everyday transactions. Unfortunately that is just Thomas Jefferson on the front, an eagle or other bird would increase support for this as a featured picture candidate.-- Swtpc6800 (talk) 00:35, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
•  Support At full size quality is pretty good, can't see any technical problems, the stamp is actually very well preserved, being true that it is 150 years old. This has good EV. and quality. More votes will come don't worry about the eagle, give people some time to review the file, good luck. --Paolo Costa (talk) 04:36, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Saffron Blaze (talk) 23:33, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Katarighe (Talk) 16:58, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Yann (talk) 19:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:24, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
•  Support InverseHypercube 08:34, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
•  Comment I have uploaded the tiff files for the front and back of the note. File:US_Postal_Currency_5_cent_1862_front_720a.tif and File:US_Postal_Currency_5_cent_1862_back_720a.tif I also uploaded tiff files made with different scanner settings, the mid-tones were darkened. (Photoshop Elements, Histogram adjustment, mid-tone from 1.2 to 1.0.) File:US_Postal_Currency_5_cent_1862_front_720b.tif and File:US_Postal_Currency_5_cent_1862_back_720b.tif -- Swtpc6800 (talk) 20:06, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Tomer T (talk) 18:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic media