1880年1000美元纸钞 PCGS BG AU 55

1880年1000美元纸钞 PCGS BG AU 55

Fr. 187b (W-4513). 1880 $1,000 Legal Tender Note. PCGS Choice About New 55.，This note is unique in private hands and is impressively preserved, notably combining rarity and quality as seen in notes throughout the Joel R. Anderson Collection. In fact, across the entire spectrum of federal notes in all series, few can equal the status of the best notes of the Joel R. Anderson Collection, and this one is among those. The term "once in a lifetime opportunity" might well prove to be appropriate here.

This 1880 $1000 Legal Tender Note with a large brown spiked Treasury Seal no doubt looks distinctive to even some of the most advanced United States currency specialists. The design and seal type combination was only used for two varieties: those with signatures of Bruce-Wyman (as seen here) and those with signatures of Rosecrans-Nebeker, for which no examples are known. Just two examples of Fr. 187b (W-4513) are known with one (serial number Z6498) residing in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution where it is likely to remain. That leaves this lone note (serial number Z1164), as the only example of this design type and seal combination available to the collecting public.<p>Three broad margins are seen on this note, while the cut is a touch tight along the top. The paper is creamy white and free of any distracting marks or blemishes. Just the lightest signs of handling are seen upon close inspection. The engraved design elements are darkly inked, including the portrait of DeWitt Clinton at center and the vignette of Columbus at left. The visually striking large brown spiked Treasury Seal is sharply printed and bold while the serial numbers are in a deeply impressed dark blue. The extremely ornate green back is presented in full detail. This note realized $862,500 when it was last offered more than a decade ago, in 2006. We would not be surprised to see a realization that approaches or surpasses that price when the hammer again falls on this rarity.

$1000 Legal Tender Notes, Series of 1880</strong><p>The face design continues that used in the Series of 1869 and 1878, but with some changes. The main motifs are the same. Depicted on the face are two seemingly unrelated vignettes, not particularly unusual in a layout for this period. To the left is <em>Columbus in His Study,</em> with a globe on the floor nearby, a reminder of his contributions to the spread of Western ideologies and societies around the world. At the center is DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), with the fingers of his right hand touching the side of his head. Perhaps both men were deemed prominent in water, thus relating the vignettes, Columbus for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to "discover" America, and Clinton as the driving force behind the Erie Canal, started in 1817 and completed in 1825, which linked the Great Lakes with the Atlantic. This is a stretch, but who knows?

The signatures are the Bruce-Wyman combination, in office together from 1883 to 1885. The print run was 12,000, mostly used in federal and bank-to-bank transactions and not in everyday commerce.<p>，From the Joel R. Anderson Collection of United States Paper Money, Part I. Earlier from Currency Auctions of Americas sale of October 1998, lot 2311; Lyn Knights sale of June 2006, lot 122.，