Auction Name: 2026 January 13 - 16 FUN U.S. Currency Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 20614

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/3600*20614

Ithaca, NY - $2 Original Fr. 387a The Merchants & Farmers National Bank Ch. # 729 PCGS Banknote About Unc 53.
A beautiful Lazy Deuce from a very rare Tompkins County bank which issued First Charters only before liquidating in 1873. By 1910, only $640 remained unredeemed on the books of the Comptroller of the Currency. This is the only Deuce known from here, and one of just three notes recorded from a short-lived bank that operated briefly in this community that is the home to Cornell University and Ithaca College. It made its first public appearance in the 1982 auction of The Richard Saffin Collection and was one of the few notes to merit a picture in a very sparsely illustrated catalog. Since then, in subsequent public appearances, it has been graded anywhere from Very Fine to CU with PCGS Banknote assigning an AU grade. It is a pen-signed beauty which retains its full bottom selvage along with excellent color and dark pen signatures. PCGS Banknote has commented about some partially masked writing in the selvage, an issue that does not affect the note itself in the slightest.
From The Westchester Collection

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