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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Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2812
90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, radiant color, perfs scissors-separated as usual but mostly intact, small repaired tear at rightVERY FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 1875 90-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE SPECIAL PRINTING.
Our records for Scott 177 contain 46 copies. Only seventeen have perforations intact on all four sides, and of these only nine are confirmed as sound.
Census no. 177-UNC-30. With 1988 and 2015 P.F. certificates
18,000
6,500
