1869年500美元彩虹 PCGS Currency 55 PPQ
Friedberg 184 (W-4060). 1869 $500 Legal Tender Note. PCGS Currency Choice About New 55 PPQ.
While rare and outstanding notes abound throughout the Joel R. Anderson Collection, the significance of the present note is impossible to overstate. This 1869 $500 "Rainbow" Legal Tender Note is the only example of its type available to collectors.pThe note features the allegorical figure Justice at left, holding balance scales in her left hand and an upward pointing sword in her right. The denomination is boldly displayed in an ornate die counter at center. The portrait of President John Quincy Adams is in an oval frame at right. The serial numbers are in red and found to the lower left and upper right of center. A large pink Treasury Seal is just to the right of center. The engraved signatures of Allison and Spinner are along the bottom border of the design. The back is ornately printed in green with large 500 counters at left and right and the Legal Tender clause inside a circular frame at center. pJust 89,360 examples were printed and today only three are known to exist. Serial Number N16035, a repaired Very Fine note, resides in the National Numismatic Collection in the Smithsonian Institution. The second note, serial N31963, is recorded as a damaged Fine and is permanently impounded in the collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The presently offered example, with serial number N48792, is the only 1869 $500 Legal Tender Note in private hands. Moreover, it is far and away the finest in condition!pThis note is much rarer than the $1000 "Grand Watermelon" notes of 1890; there are three times as many of those in private hands. The finest of those "Grand Watermelon" notes sold for $2,040,000 in our offering of Part III of the Anderson Collection this past October. In contrast, the present $500 Series of 1869 Legal Tender Note is one the greatest U.S. currency rarities available for private ownership. It has never traded publicly at auction and has only been sold by private treaty twice in the last several decades. This is the first and perhaps only opportunity most collectors will ever have to compete for this exceptional piece of American numismatic history. One of the greatest highlights from the monumental Joel R. Anderson Collection, this note could be a record setter and is truly worth whatever bid is required to acquire it. ppstrongJohn Quincy Adams/strongpElected to the presidency in 1825, John Quincy Adams was the first son of a former president to be elected president. Prior to his term as president Adams had served as secretary of state under president James Monroe assisting in the formulation of the Monroe Doctrine. He served only a single term as president and was unseated by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1828.ppFrom Friedberg & Koike Illustration; Robert Friedberg; Jim Thompson; Private Midwest Collector; Doctors Edward and Joanne Dauer.
