Fractional Currency Shield - The Ultimate Treasury - Issued Display Item - & Book
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:10045222 |
.Fr. 1382 Fractional Currency Shield, With Gray Background. Elaborately framed sometime after 1925 as the cardboard box used as backing material bears an October 27, 1925 date. The shield has a number of condition issues including heavy aging that affects all but four of the notes, a stain that affects five notes, and some short tears that miss reaching any note. It's the normal Gray Shield save for one interesting anomaly: Shields typically have printed signature Spinner and Just...ice notes in the upper left corner, and a hand autographed Spinner and Justice in the upper right corner. On this Shield, the hand-signed Justice is missing, and there are two hand-signed Spinners. This clearly is an assembler's error that we have not seen before. Unlike most paper money items, the price range for Shields is rather narrow from the worst to the best. This Shield, which is in the bottom-half of the condition census (but really not all that bad) will likely realize...