90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, showing top selvage and full perforations all around, wonderfully deep rich color on bright paper, nicely balanced and wide margins, tiny expertly sealed tear in second perf hole at bottom left is barely detectable and mentioned only on the later P.F. certificate

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 1875 90-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our census of Scott 177 contains 48 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 47 available to collectors. Only seventeen have perforations intact on all four sides, and of these only nine are confirmed as sound. Many have poor centering.

Census no. 177-UNC-14. P.F. certificate nos. 257324 (sound) and 334648 (mentioning the tiny tear) no longer accompany. With clear 2007 P.S.E. certificate

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