Sale 1227 — Outstanding United States Stamps and Gold Coins

Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 19-23 October, 2020

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Category — 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-175)

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Sale 1227, Lot 2798, 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-175)3c Blue Green, Special Printing (169). Without gum as issued, rich color, perfs scissors-separated as usual but intact on three sides and showing some perfs at left, faint horizontal crease not mentioned on accompanying certificate

FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 1875 3-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our census of Scott 169 contains 36 examples that have been certified as genuine by The Philatelic Foundation (including one on cover). Of these, only three have perforations all around and are confirmed as sound.

Census no. 169-UNC-22. With 1957 P.F. certificate

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