Friedberg 147 (W-2020). 1880 $20 Legal Tender Note. PCGS Currency Gem New 65 PPQ.Out of the 286 Fr.147 (W-2020) examples graded by PCGS Currency just 10 have been certified in the Uncirculated or "New" grade levels. The1880 $20 Legal Tender Notes continue a design introduced in 1869.<p><p>Depicted on the face is a profile portrait of Alexander Hamilton, differently styled from that on the $2 Legal Tender Note, Series of 1862. On the right side is the standing goddess <em>Liberty,</em> holding a shield aloft with her left arm, with a walking stick in her right, and wearing a helmet topped with an eagle. The allegory was taken from a drawing by John W. Casilear, who studied art under Asher B. Durand and Peter Maverick, and who in the 1850s was a partner in the bank-note engraving and printing firm of Tappan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co. His nephew George W. Casilear joined the National Currency Bureau in 1862 and later held the post of chief engraver of the BEP. During this era there were many different representations of a goddess representing America, sometimes called <em>Liberty</em> (often with a liberty pole), sometimes called Columbia, or America, or another designation.<p><p>The green printed back bears the imprint of the BEP at bottom center. This broadly margined plate D note is boldly printed on choice paper. It is one of just three examples graded at the 65 PPQ level with only one finer.<p><strong>PCGS Population:</strong> 3, 1 finer.<em>From Christies sale of September 1982, lot 1643; Currency Auctions of Americas sale of January 1997, lot 2462; R.M. Smythes sale of June 1997, lot 2143; Lyn Knights sale of October 2005, lot 118. </em><p>
