拍品描述： 1862债券1000美元 PCGS Currency 64

Lot of (2) Friedberg 186a (W-4491-4492). 1862 $1,000 Legal Tender Notes. PCGS Currency Very Choice New 64 and Choice About New 58. Face and Back Proofs.Hessler-1376a. India paper mounted to card. Both Hessler Plate Notes. Founding father and Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris at center encompassed by petaled 1000 counters. Large numeral M counters with superimposed 1000 at upper left and right. One Thousand Dollars in mostly Gothic font at left and right with intricate protectors. No series, Script date of March 10th 1862. Green PATENTED 30 JUNE 1857 vertically at right border. ACT OF FEBY 25th 1862 within frame at left border. Arched UNITED STATES at top with exceptional shadowing. Back, cigar label styling with large vertical 1000 counters flanking a central frame containing obligation. First obligation and serpentine UNITED STATES, OF AMERICA above and below. Face graded Very Choice New 64 and back Choice About New 58. Certainly one of the most important proofs within this world class collection. A simply sensational item that is unknown as configured here in issued form. The only two impressions for this design as a whole listed in Hessler. The finest of just three collectible issued pieces for the design was recently sold in our March 2018 Joel R. Anderson Part I sale where it realized $960,000. The trio of collectible issued notes all bear a second obligation back. The note as presented here is unique in design, and we would expect dedicated collectors to be eagerly awaiting this lot to cross the auction block.<p>Here is another "wonder note," a must-have if your budget can accommodate it. At a display of currency this and its $500 sister would attract attention from near and wide. Most specialists have never even seen such proofs.From the Levitan Collection, Lyn Knights sale of December 3-6, 1998, lot 103 (Back); Bowers and Merenas sale of the Collections of Herman Halpern and Gerald O. Warner, March 6-8, 1997, lot 1014 (Face); Nascas (a division of R.M. Smythe) sale of June 20-21, 1986, lot 1420 (Back).