Twenty-one 19th Century Bank Notes/Currency Items. Including three printed Cheshire Bank shares made out to Samuel Batchelder, September 18, 1804; a September 2, 1861 Confederate $20 note and a February 17, 1864 Confederate $50 note both mounted on a sheet of paper; ten mounted U.S. fractional currency notes including two three-cent notes, a four-cent note, a five-cent note, two ten-cent notes, two twenty-five-cent notes, and two fifty-cent notes; and six Commercial College Bank, Auburn, Maine, fractional currency notes for one, three, five, ten, twenty-five, and fifty cents each.
Provenance: The Charles Foster Batchelder III estate, upstate New York, formerly of Natick, Massachusetts.
Note: Cheshire Bank was eventually absorbed by Citizens Bank after a series of mergers.
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