拍品描述： 1862债券500美元 PCGS Currency

Lot of (2) Types of Friedberg 183-183a (W-4001-4002). 1862 $500 Legal Tender Notes. PCGS Currency Very Choice New 64 and Very Fine 25. Face and Back Proofs.Hessler-1320. Face, India paper on card. Plate A. Back India paper only. Face, The Hessler Plate Note. American Bank Note Company imprint. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin is seen at the center, surrounded by a circular frame of tiny die counters each reading FIVE HUNDRED. Large 500 counters are seen at the upper left and right, while FIVE HUNDRED overlaps ornate green panels below on both sides. Without signatures. ACT OF FEBY 25th 1862, vertically at right. Script date of March 10th 1862. No Series. Given the technical aspects of the face impression this needs to be attributed as Friedberg 183a. The printing is beautifully executed by the American Bank Note Company, with all of the design elements vividly detailed and strongly inked. The rich green color for which these early Legal Tender types are known is as nice as the day they were printed. Back, large 500 counters to left and right and first obligation centered inside an oval frame. A legendary type in the field of collectible currency. We offered an issued form of the design in Part I of the Joel R. Anderson Collection. That note, the later New Series type of Fr. 183c, brought $900,000 in March 2018. There is just one known note for this configuration in issued form, a Fine graded Fr. 183a note with Type I Treasury seal that is known to collectors as the "Oat Bin Hoard" example. The last record of that piece being sold was by Dean Oakes in 1975. As a proof just this face impression is known according to Hessler with three listings for the back design. Face graded Very Choice New 64 and back in Very Fine 25 with PCGS Currency mentioning "Edge & Internal Tears; Minor Damage; Small Repairs," in the comments section of the holder. A truly special, and by our knowledge unique, item that will be a centerpiece within any collection.<p>Considering the high denomination of this note and its 1862 date we cannot help but wonder if this might have been gifted to Alexandre Vattemare by Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase. It certainly would have been a key item for Chase to send.Levitan Collection, Lyn Knights sale of December 3-6, 1998, lot 100 (Back); Bowers and Merenas sale of the Collections of Herman Halpern and Gerald O. Warner, March 6-8, 1997, lot 1013 (Face).