2c Black Brown, Special Printing (193). Without gum as issued, deep rich color, bottom right corner perf reattached

FINE APPEARANCE. A SCARCE EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT 1880 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our census of Scott 193 contains 52 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 51 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-52. With 1942 A.P.S. and 2006 P.F. certificates

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