Fr. 177. 1880 $100 Legal Tender Note. PMG Extremely Fine 40. Just 21 examples of these Rosecrans-Huston signed 1880 $100 Legal Tender Notes are recorded in the Track & Price census. The portrait of Abraham Lincoln seen in the upper left was engraved by Charles Burt from a photograph taken by Anthony Berger at Mathew Bradys studio in February 1864. A small vignette of Miss Liberty wearing a Phrygian cap is seen at bottom center. The scene at right is titled Reconstruction and shows a woman with a carpenters square, a child holding a scroll showing a pergola and the U.S. Capitol dome unfinished in the background. A large peach colored spiked Treasury Seal is seen just to the right of center. Bold blue printed serial numbers are to the lower left and upper right of center. <p><p>This broadly margined example comes on bright white paper that exhibits little sign of circulation. PMG has assigned the grade of Extremely Fine 40 to this example while adding the comment "Restoration" on the back of the holder. This is a wonderful example of a very difficult to obtain design type.
