Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MORMONS.) Unaccomplished two dollar "Valley Note" currency, without a serial number. Approximately 2x3 3/4 inches. Salt Lake City: [Brigham H. Young], 20 January 1849
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very rare paper money issued by the mormon church and one of the first examples of printing in utah. The Church issued paper money in several denominations in the short time before gold dust could be properly coined. According to Alvin E. Rust, only 204 $2 Valley Notes without a serial number were issued. McMurtrie, The Beginnings of Printing in Utah, pages 13-20; Rust, Mormon and Utah Coin and Currency, pages 60-65; Streeter Sale 2285.