2c Black Brown, Special Printing (193). Without gum as issued, intense shade, three wide margins, central thin spot not mentioned on older certificate

VERY FINE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 2-CENT 1880 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our census of Scott 193 contains 51 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 50 available to collectors. Almost half have faults (mostly thins, which are endemic to this soft porous paper). Of the sound examples, nearly all are centered to top or one side.

Census no. 193-UNC-09. With 1955 and 2018 P.F. certificates

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