2c Carmine Vermilion, Special Printing (180). Exceptional depth of color on crisp paper, centered to left but with perforations clear of the design on that side

FRESH AND FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE SOUND 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 24 ARE RECORDED IN OUR CENSUS.

Our census of Scott 180, available at https://siegelauctions.com/census/us/scott/180 , records 24 examples of this rare Special Printing, one of which is in the Miller collection at The New York Public Library. Only about a dozen are confirmed as sound.

Census No. 180-UNC-12. "SA" manuscript initials (Spencer Anderson) and small "W.H.C." backstamp (Warren H. Colson). With 1993 and 2008 P.F. certificates

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