Mar 31, 2007 - Sale 2109

Sale 2109 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
FLOWN Gemini 3 Two Dollar Bill. A legal tender two dollar Federal Reserve note carried on the flight of Gemini 3. The bill is mounted on an 8.5x11 inch certificate, notarized and dated March 23, 1965. With a Typed Letter Signed by Gemini Pad Supervisor Si Parden providing the history of this bill. (ECR)U.S. Treasury, Washington, DC, 1953

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The note was signed and inscribed: "Gus Grissom, GT-3, 3-23-65," and signed by John Young. The certificate reads in part: "This is to certify that the currency with serial number A 76764659 A did as a matter of fact accompany "Gus" Grissom and John Young on their three orbit flight, March 23, 1965, in the Gemini Space Craft "Molly Brown." The certificate is signed by Gus Grissom and John Young.