15c Bright Orange, Special Printing (174). Without gum as issued, vivid shade, well-centered, usual scissors separation but all perfs fully intact

VERY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL AND FRESH EXAMPLE OF THE 15-CENT 1875 CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING. ONE OF THE FINEST EXTANT.

Our census of Scott 174 contains 40 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 39 available to collectors. Of these, an overwhelming majority have reduced or missing perforations from scissors-separation on at least one side. Only five or six have intact perforations, and of those perhaps half are faulty. This sound and attractively centered example with intact perforations is a true condition rarity.

Census no. 174-UNC-01. Ex Col. Green and from our 1998 Rarities sale. With 2008 P.F. certificate

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