USA,
Fractional
Currency, 3 cents, P105a, 3.3.1863, Washington,
light background portrait, VG $29.00 sold
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USA,
Fractional
Currency, 15 cents P116c, F1269 3.3.1863,
Columbia, blue tint on face, violet fibers, pinhole, VF $56.00
sold 8/4/2010
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USA,
Fractional
Currency, 50 cents, P119a, 3.3.1863, Lincoln,
grafitti,
VG $54.00 sold 10/4/2007
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USA,
Fractional Currency, third series, 10 cents, P108,
3.3.1863. The Union gunboat Mercedita captured the Confederate
blockade runner Bermuda 4/27/1862. Part of the cargo was a
quantity of "CSA" watermarked paper destined for use as Confederate banknotes.
Some proofs were printed on this contraband paper and sold in the north
as fund raisers. This pair is from the Farouk collection. Face
proof Unc, back proof has small edge tear & pair of tiny shallow digs
out of top margin. The pair $220.00 sold
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