$4.00 Pale Aniline Rose, Columbian (244a). Bottom imprint, letter "CC" and plate no. 107 strip of four, original gum, few small h.r., radiant color, beautiful centering, three stamps with thin spots, corner crease in bottom left selvage

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE AND DESIRABLE IMPRINT, LETTER AND PLATE NUMBER STRIP OF FOUR OF THE $4.00 COLUMBIAN. ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT POSITION MULTIPLES OF THE ISSUE TO OBTAIN.

The $4.00 Columbian is extremely difficult to find in any form of plate number multiple. There are two, possibly three, plate blocks of six, which of course do not have the letters. The Scott-listed plate block of eight is actually a plate block of ten (it catalogues $400,000.00). The last imprint and plate number strip of four we offered was in our 1999 Argentum sale. Given its rarity, we are surprised Scott Catalogue assigns such a small value to the $4.00. In our opinion, the $4.00 and $5.00 Columbian imprint and plate number strips of four should have equal catalogue values (the $5.00 catalogues $62,500.00).

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