Friedberg 126. 1863 $20 Legal Tender Note. PMG Choice Extremely Fine 45. Vivid inks and full frame lines are displayed by this richly colored and highly appealing 1863 $20 Legal Tender Note. This lightly circulated note features sharply detailed engraved design elements and protectors. The paper is clean and free of any impairment whatsoever. This issue continues the general face design used on $20 Demand Notes. At the center is the standing figure of Liberty with a sword in her right hand and with her left resting on a shield. We estimate that about 734,000 were printed and believe that fewer than 200 can be accounted for today.Printed on plate for F-126: March 10, 1863. Printed signatures of Chittenden and Spinner. "American Bank Note Co. New York" at bottom border. The Treasury Seal is at far right and slightly low. Red serial numbers at upper right. Without (plate 3) and with flourishes around plate letter. New Series 9 to 18. This note, formerly from the collection of Frank Levitan, is the second finest that PMG has graded for the catalog number. <em>From Lyn Knights sale of May 1985, lot 30; Frank Levitan; Lyn Knights sale of December 5, 1998, lot 70. </em>
