By Bradley Charles Trotter – Foreign money Specialist and Lead Foreign money Cataloger, Stack’s Bowers Galleries ……
With the Stack’s Bowers Galleries March 2025 Showcase Public sale shaping as much as be a cornerstone of the 12 months’s public sale schedule, one of many standout consignments for that public sale is one thing that’s provided each few years at finest: a uncommon Fr. 284 “Triple Signature” Collection of 1878 $10 Silver Certificates of Deposit.
Solely 4 examples of this Friedberg quantity are recorded by Observe & Worth, with a handful of public sale appearances going again to the Nineties. This specific instance realized $312,000 when it final crossed the public sale block in 2023. It provides a powerful diploma of eye attraction bolstered by unusual rarity.
That includes the penned countersignature of Assistant Treasurer J.C. Hopper, this observe was issued underneath the short-lived Collection of 1878, outlined by the brilliant pinkish-red floral overprint and printed on safety paper furnished by the Wilcox Firm underneath its 1866 patent.
The penned countersignatures had been shortly discarded in favor of engraved countersignatures as the duty of hand-signing every observe proved to be troublesome and the signatures of Hopper and his counterparts Anthony, Hillhouse, and Wyman had been engraved into the printing plates for comfort.
Subsequent printings of the Collection of 1878 would function the engraved signature of the Assistant Treasurer, however by the early Eighties, this function could be discarded.
The “Triple Signature” Collection 1878 $10 Silver Certificates featured within the Stack’s Bowers March 2025 Showcase Auction has an estimate of roughly $200,000 to $300,000. For extra details about our auctions or to consign your numismatic gadgets, please name 800-458-4646 or e mail [email protected].
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