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TitleDigger Dollar
Author
Publisher
Place
Year
Date 16/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
Publication
Volume
Issue
Page(s)
MediumBroadsheet
Dimension3" x 8.5"
Extent
Imprint
Collation
CatalogDP-025a/b
CollectionSOLA-o(PW)
Cit. No.
Keywords
Trans. Title
Section
GroupDigger Movement (Core Collection)
Sub-Group
Series
Folder
DP-025a/b
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Notes
No basis for the dating except the use of "Free Frame of Reference," the name of the first and second Digger free stores.
Abstract
A Digger Dollar issued by the “Free Men of the Whole World,” transforming the form of paper money into a declaration of the new free economy. The bill keeps the frame of official currency while subverting every part of it: the dollar portrait is inverted, the denomination becomes “1:1,” and the value is named as love, time, and the free exchange of human energy. As with much Digger printing, the piece works by turning the symbols of the money system back against themselves, making “free” not an absence of value but the beginning of another standard of value altogether.
Full Text
Side 1 / recto

WITHIN A FREE FRAME OF REFERENCE . . .

THE FREE MEN OF THE WHOLE WORLD
(NOT TO BE CONSTRUED TO BE “REAL” IN ANY AMERICAN SENSE!)

[left center: altered flag / money graphic]

[center portrait upside down]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF
[partly obscured text underneath]

HELL
OF
A
MESS

DIGGER DOLLAR!

Small marks/text visible:

H 38
12
12
SERIES 1963
MD
DP019

Side 2 / verso

A MANIFESTATION OF THE NEW ECONOMIC SPIRIT ARISING OUT

THE FREE MEN OF THE WHOLE WORLD

[large faint text, apparently:]
ONE

LOVE!

TIME

NOW

1:1

[left hand graphic:]
LEST
WE
FORGET

[right skull/question-mark graphic:]
YES

DIGGER DOLLAR

[right margin, vertical:]
IN THE RADICAL CHANGE

[bottom edge, upside down / partly cut off:]
NOW NOW, WHO WEARS MAN WILL WE …

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