 Uncut Sheet of First Issue Experimental 25¢ Backs. Type of Fr.1282. Straight edges without monogram. Sixteen impressions configured four vertically and four horizontally. Printed on light yellow bond paper. The verso (where the NBN would print the face) is completely blank while the back is the normal back of Fr.1282. Milton 1E.25R.1. Back design as used on printed notes. Back plate '1' located at the left central margin. This is lot 879 from the 1943 Grinnell Sale by B. Max Mehl where it was cataloged as ''the sheet has been folded but the creases are hardly noticeable and the notes as a whole are uncirculated. The first I have ever heard of.'' Likely unique in this form. We have not seen the single experimentals either. Extremely Fine with the sheet quarterfolded. However you grade the sheet, this is a very important piece that should be of great interest to the Fractional Currency collecting fraternity.
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Estate; Grinnell Sale (B. Max Mehl 1943, lot 879).
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