2c Carmine Vermilion, Special Printing (180). Without gum as issued, bright color, perfs scissors-separated at top with all but one intact, small thin spot top right corner

FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 1875 2-CENT CARMINE VERMILION CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING. ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL BANK NOTE SPECIAL PRINTINGS. ONLY 23 ARE RECORDED IN OUR CENSUS.

Our census of Scott 180, available at http://www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/180/180.pdf , records 23 examples of this rare Special Printing, one of which is in The New York Public Library collection. Only a dozen are confirmed as sound.

Census No. 180-UNC-02. Ex Ambassador (Siegel Sale 300) and Mielstrup (Siegel Sale 431). With 1958 and 2006 P.F. certificates

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