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ALBERT EINSTEIN, Initials a $1 Bill--Rare

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Albert Einstein Initials “A.E.” on a One Dollar Bill !

ALBERT EINSTEIN.
Signed $1 Bill, “A.E.”, c. 1940s, Princeton, Very Choice Extremely Fine. In the mid 1940s, two students at Princeton, L. Bradley and S. Weis made a bet concerning how much Einstein’s write up of the theory of relativity would sell at an auction benefiting the US war effort. One student bet the auction wouldn’t fetch over a million and the other bet it would. According to “Albert Einstein, A Biography” by Albrecht Foelsing, the reconstructed manuscript was bought by an insurance company for $6.5 million at a February 3 Kansas City auction. It is now housed at the Library of Congress. Later, the students approached Einstein and had him sign the $1 bill. The other student just had a $5 bill that Einstein signed as well. The bills were acquired directly from a patient of S. Weis, and Norman Rosewater, a Scientist with American Cyanamid.

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