Sale 1227 — Outstanding United States Stamps and Gold Coins
Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 19-23 October, 2020
Category — 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-175)
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2795
2c Dark Brown, Special Printing (168). Without gum as issued, deep color and proof-like impression, perfs scissors-separated as almost always leaving straight edges at top and right and full perfs on other sidesVERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT 1875 CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.
Our census of Scott 168 contains 60 copies certified as genuine. Many have perfs scissors-trimmed on at least one side and many have perforations into the design. The example offered here is very presentable.
Census no. 168-UNC-59. With 2002 P.S.E. and 2007 P.F. certificates
6,000
3,000
