Lot of 16, plus. Two fractional currency, 50 cents, Type-72, Richmond, Feb. 17th, 1864 issue. Ser. Nos. 21886 and 46218, stamped. Printed signatures; blank verso. Both rate about VF with only a couple folds and minor margin chips to one. One has darkened slightly. Six $50 bills, Type-66, dated Feb. 17th, 1864; one with no series noted, three first series, and one each second and third series. With portrait of Jefferson Davis center recto. Blue denomination on verso. All plate A, two W, one X, two Y, one Z. All signed by different agents for the government. Keatings & Ball, Columbia, SC printers. Ser. Nos. 91384, 74596, 12543, 44289, 57576, 54311. Most VF or better. Last still has crispness to paper and only a bit of fold damage to edge. A few have minor edge damage, but none have folds in center of the bill. First one trimmed slightly off. Eight $100 bills, Type-65. Richmond, Feb. 17th, 1864. Center portrait of Lucy Pickens, wife of the Governor of South Carolina. Lower left vignette of two figures representing the infantry and artillery. Portrait of Secretary of War, George Wythe Randolph lower right. Denomination in blue in on verso. Printed by Keatings & Ball on banknote paper. Ser. Nos. 78212, , 87813 (no series noted), 30571 and 33873 (both Series II), 33291, 78697, 47852, 65370 (all four (Series I). Last two still crisp, no folds. Others with some toning (as is common with older red inks) or surface soil, but not excessive. Generally VF or better. Also includes some souvenir bills: a few heavily toned on the artifically "aged" paper. Three are miniature versions of Confederate bills. For example, there is a $50 bill about half the size of the real ones in this lot. Fricke, Pierre. Collecting Confederate Paper Money: Field Edition 2014. Published by the author. Provenance: Property of N. Flayderman & Co.
Lot of 16, plus. Two fractional currency, 50 cents, Type-72, Richmond, Feb. 17th, 1864 issue. Ser. Nos. 21886 and 46218, stamped. Printed signatures; blank verso. Both rate about VF with only a couple folds and minor margin chips to one. One has darkened slightly. Six $50 bills, Type-66, dated Feb. 17th, 1864; one with no series noted, three first series, and one each second and third series. With portrait of Jefferson Davis center recto. Blue denomination on verso. All plate A, two W, one X, two Y, one Z. All signed by different agents for the government. Keatings & Ball, Columbia, SC printers. Ser. Nos. 91384, 74596, 12543, 44289, 57576, 54311. Most VF or better. Last still has crispness to paper and only a bit of fold damage to edge. A few have minor edge damage, but none have folds in center of the bill. First one trimmed slightly off. Eight $100 bills, Type-65. Richmond, Feb. 17th, 1864. Center portrait of Lucy Pickens, wife of the Governor of South Carolina. Lower left vignette of two figures representing the infantry and artillery. Portrait of Secretary of War, George Wythe Randolph lower right. Denomination in blue in on verso. Printed by Keatings & Ball on banknote paper. Ser. Nos. 78212, , 87813 (no series noted), 30571 and 33873 (both Series II), 33291, 78697, 47852, 65370 (all four (Series I). Last two still crisp, no folds. Others with some toning (as is common with older red inks) or surface soil, but not excessive. Generally VF or better. Also includes some souvenir bills: a few heavily toned on the artifically "aged" paper. Three are miniature versions of Confederate bills. For example, there is a $50 bill about half the size of the real ones in this lot. Fricke, Pierre. Collecting Confederate Paper Money: Field Edition 2014. Published by the author. Provenance: Property of N. Flayderman & Co.
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