$5.00 Carmine & Blue (573). Mint N.H., spectacular bright colors on white paper, mathematically perfect centering with wide margins

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. THIS MAGNIFICENT MINT NEVER-HINGED EXAMPLE OF THE $5.00 1922 ISSUE HAS BEEN GRADED GEM 100 BY P.S.E. -- THE ESSENCE OF PERFECTION.

Collectors seeking to build superb sets of the most iconic United States definitive issues have been waiting for the key top value of the 1922 Issue, Scott 573, to be certified as Gem 100. Despite more than 380 prior submissions of Mint N.H. stamps to P.S.E., this is the first and only example to achieve the perfect grade of Gem 100. Looking at the set as a whole, the only other stamps still without a Mint N.H. Gem 100 grade are the 5c and 9c values (Scott 557 and 561).

With 2014 P.S.E. certificate (Gem 100; unpriced in SMQ above the grade of 98). No other example has been graded above 98

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