1771, December. North Carolina. Colonial note for TWO SHILLINGS and SIX PENCE. 4” x 2 ¼”. Lower left corner vignette of a house. Signers were Richard Caswell, Lewis De Rosset, John Harvey and John Rutherfurd. Tear at center fold repaired on verso with archival tape. Numerous small repairs on verso with archival tape. Some chinking along borders. Upper right corner missing. Uncancelled.

1850's, Massachusetts. A Cochituate Bank $5 Note. Very graphic vignettes throughout.

1865. Unissued $50 scrip payable “ at any Office of the Company for a second cabin ticket between New York and San Francisco….or…in payment of freight, or it will be redeemed in gold as paid.” Printed by Archibald, Maclaw. New York. Scarce.

Extremely Rare low serial number (#32). 1896 $1 Silver Certificate Friedberg No. 224 with original presentation envelope to the President’s wife, Mrs. Grover Cleveland. In an original Treasury Department envelope as transmitted to the first lady: “Mrs. Cleveland #32, July 23, 1896.” A choice opportunity to acquire one of the lowest possible numbers of this highly popular series which was presented to the First Lady. An interesting rarity.

One each of six denominations: one, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred. The six notes bear the following illustrations on obverse and reverse: one, a steamer pulling into port; five, a riverside town at the base of a mountain range; ten, a herd of bison; twenty, early North American settlers in prayer by the sea; fifty, two woodmen chopping down a large tree; one hundred, cattlemen roping a steer. These items have been encapsulated and graded as a set by PASS-CO. Superb GEM CU-67.

Thomas De La Rue and Company. Giori Process Trial Specimen. Vignette of William Shakespeare at right and The Globe Theatre at left. Reverse bears a variety of Shakespearian theatrical scenes. Multi-colored underprinting and security printing on obverse and reverse depicts assorted theatrical masks. This item has been encapsulated and graded by PASS-CO.

Circa 1825. Baltimore, Maryland. $5 Note. “The Utopian Bank standard for one dollar being one pound of pure silver, therefore this currency for Five Dollars passing as commercial medium for the admeasurement of value will be accounted for by the bank at the intrinsic or current Exchange.” Highly detailed engraved vignette of a utopian society at work. A small tear in the paper in upper right corner with some tape residue from its repair. Small archival tape repair at margin in upper left. A rare note and very unusual. Unissued and fine.