The Freemason Code on the One Dollar Bill

In the wonderful movie “National Treasure” Nicolas Cage immensely popularizes American Freemason lore. At one point in the movie one of the characters holds up a dollar bill and indicates that it has Masonic symbols on it. It does, but the movie doesn't say how.

One of the most intriguing Mason symbols is in the two circles of the Great Seal of the United States, pictured on the rear of the bill...



In the right hand circle 13 5-pointed stars are arranged in a 6-pointed Star of David shape.


If we treat that as a hint, and so draw a Star of David over the pyramid in the left circle, carefully sizing it to fit the pyramid, and then circle the letters in the Seal pointed-at by the Star of David points, we get this...


...S, M, O, N, and A.

Rearranging the letters spells "MASON."