Sale 1227 — Outstanding United States Stamps and Gold Coins
Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 19-23 October, 2020
Category — 1c- 50c 1893 Columbian Issue (Scott 230-240)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2917
50c Columbian (240). Bottom imprint and plate no. 77 block of six, original gum, lightly hinged, deep rich color, reinforced perf separations including all perfs between positions 2-3, diagonal crease thru right pairFINE APPEARING PLATE BLOCK OF THE 50-CENT COLUMBIAN.
The 50c Columbian is the first value of the series that was printed in much more limited quantities, with 243,750 copies versus more than 617,000 of the 30c and millions of each of the 1c-15c (or more than a billion in the case of the 2c). It is scarce as a plate block, and it exists only from the bottom position due to the way the sheets from the 100-subject plates were cut and perforated (the $4.00 also exists only as a bottom plate block -- all the other Columbian values have top and bottom plate blocks)
10,500
3,500