Lot 4095: Reverse Splasher of Libertas Americana Medal
This piece was previously published in the December 1957 issue of The Numismatist as part of George Fuld's work on medallic memorials to the Marquis de Lafayette. It was lost for decades before turning up in our 2010 auction and now reappears as part of this magnificent collection of Comitia Americana medals and cliches. This piece would have likely been given by Dupre to Franklin, and thence to one of Franklin's friends in France, or from Dupre to another historic figure in Paris circa 1783. The marbled paper, similar to paper Franklin is known to have used at his press in Passy, provides another potential link to Franklin himself.

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Lot 7262: American Bank Note Company Presentation Book
This Latin American style presentation book for use with those clients or by a salesmen working in that region. The article and first 30 plates are all Latin American. Many of the vignettes used on Mexican Bancos and other rare South America notes. Many of the earlier vignettes that follow had cross-over uses to the Latin American series and could have been used on securities and other item engraved and printed by the ABN. The opening intaglio plate with Bolivar center and larger than Lincoln and Grant flanking (note he was President of the United States in 1869) is a homage to patriot and his reverence in America for expelling the Spanish monarchists from governmental authority. Historically a significant volume in the big picture and of course important in the genre of security printing history.

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Lot 7588: 1862 $50 Legal Tender Note.

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