Fr. 172. 1880 $100 Legal Tender Note. PMG Choice Uncirculated 63. The 1880 $100 Legal Tender Notes continue with the portrait of Abraham Lincoln, a small vignette of Miss Liberty, and the vignette titled Reconstruction. A large brown spiked Treasury Seal is seen right of center. Boldly printed blue serial number Z27004 is displayed to the bottom left and upper right. <p><p>This rare catalog number displays the engraved signatures of Treasury officials B.K. Bruce and James Gilfillan. Just nine of this rare Friedberg number are available to collectors while three are permanently impounded in institutional collections. <p><p>Third-party grading service PMG has graded and encapsulated this note as Choice Uncirculated 63 with the comment "Ink Lightened" added to the back of the holder. The paper is bright and well margined while the printed inks are bold and vividly detailed. This is a wonderful representation of this very scarce design type.
