Friedberg 1220. 1922 $1000 Gold Certificate. PMG Choice About Uncirculated 58 EPQ. This stunning 1922 $1000 Gold Certificate is the finest PMG graded example of the catalog number, for which about 41 examples are estimated to exist in all grades. It displays brilliant overprint inks and vivid printing on the face. The type has a portrait of Alexander Hamilton at the center flanked by gold overprints at left and right. Bold 1000 counters are in each corner. The ornate orange printed back features the Great Seal of the United States at center. The back of this example is truly radiant, free from the fading that is often found on this type. There are full margins on both sides and the note retains all of the appeal of a full Choice Uncirculated note, though the grading service has placed it in the AU range. Still this note is an extremely appealing representation of the typeThe Series of 1922 notes continue the preceding design, but now have an inscription in the left field, "THIS CERTIFICATE IS A LEGAL TENDER / IN THE AMOUNT THEREOF IN PAYMENT OF ALL / DEBTS AND DUES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE / ACTS OF MARCH 14, 1900, AS AMENDED / AND DECEMBER 24, 1919."From the print run of 80,000 we estimate that fewer than 50 survive. We have not identified even a single numismatist who saved large-size Gold Certificates at the time of issue. After Virgil M. Brand died in 1926, untold quantities of currency went to a bank for face value, with no record kept of the varieties. <em>From Currency Auctions of Americas sale of May 1998, lot 1989. </em>
