15c Orange, Special Printing (199). Without gum as issued, brilliant color, fine impression, most recent certificate notes "small thin in neck area" which is indeed tiny and endemic to this soft paper

VERY FINE AND CHOICE APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 15-CENT 1880 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our census of Scott 199, available at https://siegelauctions.com/census/us/scott/199 , contains 40 examples, including one in the Miller collection owned by The New York Public Library, leaving 39 available to collectors. Of these, only 15 are confirmed as sound, 7 have faults and 17 need to be reexamined according to current methods and standards.

Census no. 199-UNC-04. Ex Petersen. With clear 1952 and 2001 P.F. certificates. With 2023 P.F. certificate as described above.

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