Auction Number 42 Closed (#11008)

173 - MA260A-2b R9 Raw MS63 30% Bright mostly on the reverse. E. P. Francis City Hotel Billiard Room, Fall River Massachusetts struck in Brass. This very rare variety is the first we have seen offered. Formerly listed as a separate merchant as RI700B-1b, this is the designation in the new Civil War Store Card book because it combines the reverse of the E. P. Francis -1a with a reverse die 1374 formally thought of as an exclusively Rhode Island die. A MS64 example of the equally rare -2d brought $804 in our December 2012 auction. From the Ed Rosen and George Fuld collections. (750-1000)