[Music] now we're going to talk a little bit about the current $1 bill the one that we're familiar with that we carry in our wallet we have this this is the San Francisco uh seal for the San Francisco fed and the L is the 12th letter in the alphabet the San Francisco fed is the 12th Bank in the system there's another seal on here which is the Seal of the treasury there's a shield and this Chevron has the original 13 stars for 13 colonies these scales represent Justice the uh key obviously a a longstanding element
of the treasury seals conting the security associated with the with the Department these spikes uh around the Treasury seal there are 50 of them representing one fre each state so now we'll talk a little bit about the back the most prominent feature is the Great Seal of the United States and a committee consisting of Samuel Adams uh Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin was appointed three committees later and six years later a design for the seal was submitted and approved it's 7day to and just the pyramid alone is interesting because you have at the base of
the pyramid the uh Roman numerals for 1776 conting the year of Independence and then you get 13 layers to this pyramid before it ends the message here was that this was an incomplete pyramid and had a ways to go the floating eye here is variously interpreted um some people see the work of Freemasons uh in it some people just see this as the Divine Eye of Providence it's a debate for the ages and new SE this it translates literally to he has favored our undertakings no this Oro sorum can be translated to uh the New
Order of the ages now we'll talk a little bit about this side of the Great Seal The Shield has got 13 stripes on it there's 13 arrows there are 13 leaves there are the 13 stars floating above the eagle once again um a reference to the 13 colonies and then eus Unum we are one held in the Eagles Peak
