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26 lots of Obsolete Currency at Alex Cooper in Baltimore - 11/9 auciton

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  • ChesspaganChesspagan Posts: 57 ✭✭✭

    Ooops, lots 600-626, several seemed really rare - Lots 600 and 605 in particular

  • ChesspaganChesspagan Posts: 57 ✭✭✭

    600 - June 1, 1838 - Huntsville, AL, R.J. Manning $3 note - Payable in both Alabama and Tennessee bank notes. Unlisted in Rosene as the highest denomination RJ Manning note listed and/or found in online auctions is $2. Possible extremely rare merchant script that was payable in both Alabama and Tennessee notes

    605 - $1 script note from Citizens Exchange Bank of Columbus , Mississippi dated Jan 4, 1838. This bank is rated R-7 and surviving notes are quite rare, if any others exist. EF Calhoun was the Bank President. The note was printed by S.Argus and has survived well other than normal pinholes

    624 - Port William, KY, $5 Farmer's Bank of Gallatin dated Nov 18, 1825,one of the chartered banks of 1818. Only reference to this note is from the American Bank Note Sale of a Proof Note. Possible extremely rare note that grades VG with normal pinholes and several larger pinholes in the left side $5 field

    (Farmer's Bank of Gallatin is described in Haxby as "It is unclear whether the bank opened or had notes prepared"

  • ChesspaganChesspagan Posts: 57 ✭✭✭

    sorry, have no idea why the font above is so large

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