Mar 21, 2019 - Sale 2502

Sale 2502 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 8,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
LOTTERY TICKET WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Partly-printed Document Signed, "G:Washington," a lottery ticket, number 262, for the Mountain Road Lottery. 1 1/4x4 3/4 inches; complete separations at folds repaired with tissue verso, faint marginal discoloration from prior matting affecting "g" of signature, remnants of prior mounting at sides verso. [Virginia], 1768

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Washington operated a lottery to help fund the building of the Mountain Road in Virginia. The lottery likely did not take place, and while the road was eventually built, it was funded by the Virginia legislature, not the lottery.