Friedberg 161. 1880 $50 Legal Tender Note. PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ. A wonderfully appealing 1880 $50 Legal Tender that displays the engraved signatures of Treasury officials Huston and Rosecrans. The variety has the signatures of the Treasury officials transposed, with Treasurer Huston seen at bottom left and Register Rosecrans at bottom right. Just 100,000 examples of the Friedberg number were printed and today only 65 are recorded in the Track & Price census. The 1880 $50 Legal Tender Note continues with the portrait of founding father Benjamin Franklin at left and an allegory of Columbia+N68, seen as a determined young woman wearing a crown, at right. At center is an ornamental die with the Roman numeral L within and FIFTY spelled out above. A large brown spiked Treasury Seal appears just to the right of center. Blue printed serial numbers are at top center and bottom left below Franklins portrait. The back features anti-counterfeiting language at left and the Legal Tender clause at center. The imprint of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is at bottom center.This example is vividly detailed and printed with exceptionally bold inks. The crisp bright paper is well margined and centered. The overprints are boldly presented including the deep blue serial numbers and sharply inked large brown spiked Treasury Seal. PMG has graded just three examples of the catalog number finer. <em>From Lyn Knights sale of October 2000, lot 620. </em>
