(CURRENCY) Fractional currency shield with mounted specimen

Sale 2432 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 1,375

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

(CURRENCY.) Fractional currency shield with mounted specimen notes. Engraving, 24 x 20 1/2 inches, printed in gray on stiff board, with 39 mounted specimen notes, many of them signed by Treasury Department officials; edges quite worn with slight loss to the printed portions of the shield, several long closed tears affecting 8 of the notes, the whole laid down on archival paper and stabilized, remnants of 4 extra notes which had been added in the upper margins and then removed, minor dampstaining and soiling. [Washington: Treasury Department, circa 1867-68]

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These shields were issued to aid in the detection of counterfeits among the fractional currency issued during the Civil War. See Kravitz, Collector's Guide to Postage & Fractional Currency, page 136.