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| The Art of Money |
Being good in business is the
most fascinating kind of art … making money
is art and working is art
and good business is the best art. |
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Throughout this website are reproductions of an almost lost and forgotten art
form: intaglio engraving. These engravings are digitally scanned details
from various denominations of U.S. currency. Engravers with the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury since
1862, use their refined artistic skill and hard metal tools to “draw” an image
by cutting microscopic lines, dots and dashes of varying depths onto a soft
metal plate called a master die. A portrait like that of Ben Franklin can
take 500 hours to engrave. The image on the master die is then moved to a
transfer roll, and intaglio plates are made from the transfer roll for
printing. More than 140 years later the craft is still carried out in this
painstaking way, resulting in the richly detailed paper currency that we take
for granted.
This appreciation of craftsmanship
and attention to detail is the cornerstone of our work
at Moon
Capital Management.
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