3c Green, Double Impression (158j). Rich color, light strike of cork cancel and part of circular datestamp leaves double impression clearly visible, short perf at bottom right

FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 1873 3-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE ISSUE WITH DOUBLE IMPRESSION. ONLY FOUR OR FIVE ARE RECORDED IN OUR CENSUS.

Our records include four which have received genuine P.F. certificates, but one of these has subsequently received a P.F. certificate as a kiss print (and realized $2,100 hammer in our Sale 914). Those three (or four, if counting the alleged kiss print), plus the example offered here, are the only examples known to us.

With 2006 P.S.E. certificate

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