1890 Treasury Note a leading lot
Bringing a hammer price of $25,000 at the Lyn Knight Currency Auctions sale at the Chicago Paper Money Expo, March 5-7, was an 1890 $20 Treasury Note. The PCGS Abt….
Bringing a hammer price of $25,000 at the Lyn Knight Currency Auctions sale at the Chicago Paper Money Expo, March 5-7, was an 1890 $20 Treasury Note. The PCGS Abt. New 53-graded note, Fr. 372, was described as the fifth finest known.
Prices do not include the 15-18 percent buyer’s premium.
Sold for $24,000 was a 1902 Red Seal $50 The Commercial and Farmers National Bank of Baltimore, Md., E1303, Fr. 664 graded VF/XF and one of only two known from this charter. It carried purple stamped signatures of Harry M. Mason, the cashier, and W.A. Mason, president.
A highlight selling for $30,000 was a five-note set that included an uncut Original Series 1-1-1-2 sheet and a single note from the First National Bank of Oregon, Ill., 1011, Fr. 382 and 389, grade VF/XF.
“Here is likely the most exciting find of the sale as this bank was chartered in 1872 and closed in 1915. To date there are only five large notes reported on this Ogle County location. There were no $1 or $2 First Charters known before and this sheet, which has had the Deuce detached; the other three Aces remain attached.”
Other top lots included:
• 1918 $1,000 Federal Reserve Note, San Francisco, Fr. 1133-L PCGS Abt. New 50 Apparent, $23,000.
• 1922 $1,000 Gold Certificate, E3195, Fr. 1220, PCGS VF 30 Apparent, $23,000.
• 186_ $10,000 Certificate of Deposit Office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, VF/XF $22,000.
• 1899 $1 Silver Certificate, nine digit serial R100000000A, Fr. 236, PCGS Very Ch. New 64PPQ, $21,000.
• Original Series $10, The Massachusetts National Bank of Boston, Mass., 974, Fr. 412, PCGS Ch. New 63PPQ, $21,000.
• 1891 $50 Silver Certificate, Fr. 333, PCGS Ch. Abt. New 58, $20,000.
• 1928 $100 Federal Reserve Note Saint Louis H-A, Fr. 2150-H, PMG Ch. UNC 64EPQ, $15,000
• Obsolete $100 Bank of Caledonia, Danville, Vt., VT-85 G54, Gem CU, $11,000.
• Currency Commission Irish Free State specimen set of seven notes, 10 shillings; one, five, 20, 50, 100 pounds May 13, 1906, $21,000.
• Italian Somaliland, specimen set of five notes, one somalo, five, 10, 20, 100 somali 1950 $9,500.
• Bermuda, Bermuda Government 10 pounds July 29, 1964, Ch. AU 58 TOP, $7,000.
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