Everything About The $1.00 Bill

[jeffrey]

"The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill" (HarperCollins, $19) offers an astoundingly detailed exegesis of the symbolically overloaded slips of paper we use to buy off-brand shampoo at the dollar store. Some of the esoteric (and not so esoteric) knowledge contained within:

The one-eyed pyramid The surreal seeing pyramid on the back of the dollar bill combines two Masonic symbols: the Eye of Providence in a Radiant Triangle and a truncated pyramid. On the bill, the triangle containing the eye visually completes the pyramid, suggesting that the new nation would be completed with an assist from an all-seeing God... [read more at money.cnn.com]