First U.S. $2 Note Printed for Auction Sept 17-19
Published August 26th, 2008
Heritage Auction Galleries will offer the very first $2 note ever printed by the U. S. Government in their upcoming Long Beach Currency Signature Auction, to be held September 17-19, 2008. The large-size 1862 Legal Tender note (Fr. 41a) is serial number one, and has had four different owners over the past 100 years. Two of the four collectors have owned the note for approximately 70 of those 100 years.
The face of the note bears a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, with a double Serial #1 and plate position A, designating that this is the top note from the first sheet printed, as there were four notes to a sheet, with letters as plate positions running from top to bottom.
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