1928 "FUNNY BACK" Silver Certificate in XF+ Condition!

In 1928, the United States Treasury decided to reduce the size of its currency in order to speed up transactions, and also to cut costs. By this time, the Federal Reserve had taken over much of the currency market, and the prices of gold and silver had risen greatly. For Series 1928, only $1 Silver Certificates were produced. Fives and tens of this time were mainly Federal Reserve Notes, which were backed by and redeemable in gold. All this would change, however, with the beginning of the Great Depression in October 1929. The United States was plunged into an economic disaster of profound proportions. Many citizens blamed the fluctuating price of gold, which directly affected the U.S. dollar because it was pegged to the value of gold. These notes typically retail for nearly $100 as they are becoming increasingly rare.

Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Golden-haired, blue-eyed Peter O'Toole (1932) became an international superstar with his unforgettable turn as the British expatriate T.E. Lawrence in David Lean's epic masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia (1962). After surviving cancer and alcoholism, O’Toole made a triumphant come-back with Oscar nominated appearances in The Stunt Man (1980) and My Favorite Year (1982). Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole was born in 1932. In his autobiography Loitering with Intent: the Child (1992), O’Toole writes that he is not certain of his birthplace, while he has birth certificates from two countries. According to IMDb, he was born in Connemara, Ireland. Others sources indicate Leeds, England, where he also grew up, as his birthplace. However, he was the son of Constance Jane (nee Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. As a boy, Peter decided to become a journalist, beginning as a newspaper copy boy. Although he succeeded in becoming a reporter, he discovered the theater and made his stage debut at 17. He served as a radioman in the Royal Navy for two years. From 1952 to 1954 he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as a scholarship student. His classmates included Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Richard Harris. While at RADA he was active in protesting British involvement in the Korean War. Later in the 1960’s he would be an active opponent of the Vietnam War. O'Toole began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making an inconspicuous film debut in the Walt Disney production Kidnapped (1960, Robert Stevenson), a faithful adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic. Two years later, O'Toole was chosen by director David Lean to play Thomas E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean). The part of the conflicted British liaison officer caught at the center of an Arab revolt made O'Toole an international superstar. Brian McFarlane observes in the Encyclopedia of British Film: “It was a remarkable study in obsession, catching the right balance between mystic and man of action, bringing to the role kinds of intensity and zeal that few other British actors could have done”. He continued successfully in artistically rich films as well as less artistic but commercially rewarding projects. He was nominated as Best Actor for King Henry II in Becket (1964, Peter Glenville) starring Richard Burton. Two years later he was nominated again for portraying Henry II, this time in The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey) alongside Katharine Hepburn. Peter O‘Toole is one of the greatest actors of his generation. During his career, he received eight Academy Award nominations but never won the Oscar. (He has more nominations without winning than any other actor.) TCM suggests that his flamboyant personal life was maybe to blame: “Known as one of Hollywood's most infamous party animals in his prime, O'Toole earned a reputation as a prodigious drinker alongside his contemporaries and fellow countrymen Richard Harris, Richard Burton, and Oliver Reed. O'Toole's booze-fueled hijinks eventually took their toll, however, on both his career and his health. While the actor did manage to pick up his fifth Oscar nomination for the wickedly funny The Ruling Class (1972, Peter Medak), the seventies were, generally speaking, a decade long low-point in the actor's personal life and career.” Once considered one of the most beautiful men ever to grace the silver screen only a decade earlier, O'Toole's alcoholism had cost him his looks. In 1979, his 20-year marriage to Irish actress Sian Phillips ended in divorce, when she left him for a younger man. Medical problems threatened to destroy his life. Originally he thought the problems were the result of his drinking but it turned out to be stomach cancer. He survived by giving up alcohol and by serious medical treatment. He returned to the cinema with two triumphant performances: a sadistic, tyrannical director in the behind-the-scenes comedy The Stunt Man (1980, Richard Rush), and an ageing swashbuckling film star strongly resembling Errol Flynn in My Favorite Year (1982, Richard Benjamin). For both films he received an Oscar nomination. On stage, he received good reviews as John Tanner in Man and Superman and as Henry Higgins in Pygmalion (1984), and he won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (1989). However, O'Toole found meaningful film roles increasingly difficult to come by. He appeared in such duds as Supergirl (1984, Jeannot Swarc), Creator (1985, Ivan Passer) and Club Paradise (1986, Harold Ramis), but fortunately he also appeared in the much-garlanded grand epic The Last Emperor (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci). The film about the final Emperor of China (John Lone) won the Oscar for Best Picture. After another se

View of the back of the Monestery of the Cabo Espichel.-- one can see even the 18th centurty chapel at the very end .. We the Monestry and also the chapel (arab influence) right near the clift... all the styles are mixed and the wind is very strong there. Stunning place..