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Fr. 185d $500 1878 Legal Tender PMG Very Fine 20. This Fr. 185d $500 1878 Legal Tender PMG Very Fine

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Paper Money - United States Start Price:55,000.00 USD Estimated At:140,000.00 - 210,000.00 USD
Fr. 185d $500 1878 Legal Tender PMG Very Fine 20. This Fr. 185d $500 1878 Legal Tender PMG Very Fine
<B>Fr. 185d $500 1878 Legal Tender PMG Very Fine 20.</B></I> PMG comments on the single short "minor closed tear" on this otherwise perfect example. This is the fourth opportunity that we have had to offer this magnificent General Mansfield $500. Its last appearance in a CAA Sale was in May of 2005, prior to that we had sold it in January 1998 where it was described, "When we offered this note for the first time in May of 1991, it was a newly discovered note to the census. Since that time, one additional piece has turned up in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, bringing the total known up to six, two of which are permanently impounded. Only forty examples of this design type, which spans fourteen Friedberg numbers, are known to exist and of those, twenty-six are permanently impounded in government hands." The most recent example of this number at public auction was the lower grade piece, which we sold in January of 2004 for over $75,000. This presently offered note has not auctioned since we sold it in 1998. Last May, as one of Jim O'Neal's premiere rarities, the note realized $138,000 in spirited floor action. The good news is that the disappointed underbidder gets a second chance; the bad news for him is that a half-dozen new-market entrants will likely be competing for this classic rarity.