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11-22-2020Early in the 20th Century there occurred a bankruptcy sale of the
effects of the Philadelphia Bank Note Company which had inherited from the Toppan,
Carpenter Company the duplicate dies of the 1851 issue, to which numerals had been added
to all the values except the 10c and 30c, for submission as essays with their proposal for
the 1861 contract. |
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