Is There A Tiny Golden Owl Nesting in The Dollar Bill?
If you take a magnifying glass and look inside the curlicue of the scrollwork around the upper right-hand of a dollar bill you will discover, barely visible, a tiny obscure image. (In software coderspeak, such follies buried in code are called “Easter Eggs.”)
Some claim to see a spider in the web. Others claim it is an artifact of the engraving. My own close inspection suggests that it’s a squiggle. The human imagination has an insatiable talent for interpreting patterns where only randomness exists, like the notorious “Face on Mars.” That was an object of feverish speculation back in the ’70s and ’80s by a few hundred imaginative enthusiasts with too much time on their hands.
There is even some speculation out there as to whether this squiggle might be a sign of a secret group called “the Illuminati.” There is a link between the “eye of the triangle” above the pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States (depicted on the back of the dollar bill) and Freemasonry. Many of the Founders, including George Washington, Master of his lodge, belonged.
Does the squiggle hold a message? The unknown engraver who engraved the dollar bill took the secret, if there is a secret, to his grave.
I fancy it as a tiny owl.
