 Georgia. 1776. Four Spanish Milled Dollars. No.73. Maroon seal. Liberty Cap. LIBERTAS CARIOR AURO. Border variety (d). Signed by Gibbons, Stephens, Habersham, O'Bryen and Ewen. Fine or so. The note has visible wear, the signatures are a bit blurred and there is an opened split in the right center across the two perpendicular signatures. However, the maroon seal is richly colored and strongly printed with excellent details in the cap, cornucopia and caduceus. Well margined on three sides with some edge chinking at the bottom left and on the wider part of the top. There is a short edge tear at the upper left.
This relatively lower grade example of this note type (compared to many of the Condition Census examples of other types present in the Ford-Boyd collection) is perhaps evidence of the rarer nature of the seal variety. This is not reflected in the catalogue value in Newman.
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