15c Orange, Special Printing (199). Without gum as issued, brilliant color, wide margins and choice centering, tiny natural perf flaw at left which is endemic to the issue but described as a "tiny closed tear" on two older P.F. certificates, it is not even mentioned on most recent P.S.E. certificate

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 15-CENT 1880 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our census of Scott 199 contains 38 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 37 available to collectors. Of these, only 12 are confirmed as sound, at least 11 have faults and 14 need to be reexamined according to current methods and standards.

Ex Dr. Test ("Concord"). Census no. 199-UNC-28. P.F. certificate nos. 283707 and 416920 no longer accompany. With clear 2002 P.S.E. certificate

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