Bank Note Reporter

An 1880 $500 Legal Tender Note, known as the Mansfield note, Friedberg 185-L, from the Dr. Edward and Joanne Dauer Collection of Legal Tender Notes will be auctioned in Heritage-Currency Auctions of America’s Long Beach sale Sept. 26-28.

The 4,000-lot sale, official currency auction of the Long Beach Expo, leads off Wednesday evening with approximately 100 lots of Colonial and Continental Currency, and then moves on to obsolete currency, where over 150 lots will be offered. Highlights include an unlisted $5,000 proof from the Leather Manufacturer’s Bank of New York, along with 60 Republic of Texas lots.

Confederate notes continue the session, highlighted by inverted backs on a T-52 and T-59, and a Ball 276 1863 $1,000 bond.