2017-08-01 Tue

The Heritage Platinum Currency Auction will be organised at the ANA World's Fair of Money in Denver on 3rd August. The finest-known 1882 $1,000 Gold Certificate, PCGS, Very Fine 35 will be offered. 96,000 examples were printed. Only 11 of them are found today after the redemption rate ordered under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934. The offered note has an estimated value of more than $300,000.

Other highlights include a gem rainbow 1869 $20 Legal Tender, PCGS, Gem New 65PPQ, featuring a deep red seal, black design, blue serial number, deep swath of anti-counterfeiting blue ink and coloured fibres coming through the design. Another beauty is The finest-graded 1882 $20 Gold Certificate, PMG, Superb Gem, Uncirculated 67 EPQ, produced six years before the "Technicolor" $20; a wide-margined, 1869 $50 Legal Tender, PCGS, Very Fine 35, from The Yuri Solovey Collection; the last 1861 $500 Confederate Bill issued in Montgomery before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter.