Sale 968A — The Alan B. Whitman Collection, Part Two: 1870-1901 Issues
Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 14-15 April, 2009
Category — 1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Special Printing (Scott 168-180)
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90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, brilliant color, scissors-separated perforations as usual but leaving full and intact perforations on all sides, choice centering for this difficult issueVERY FINE AND CHOICE. A DESIRABLE EXAMPLE OF THE 1875 90-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE COMPANY SPECIAL PRINTING. ONE OF THE RAREST SPECIAL PRINTINGS IN SOUND AND CENTERED CONDITION.
Our recently updated census records for Scott 177 contains 44 certified examples, many of which have faults. Only 16 have perforations on all four sides, and few of those are as well-centered as the example offered here.
Unpublished Census No. 177-UNC-34. With 1938 A.P.S. and 1967 and 1989 P.F. certificates
30,000
26,000