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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SAMANA BAY FRUIT CO. NOTE
Neil Shafer's "Money of the People" collection is being auctioned by Lyn Knight (see their ad elsewhere in this issue). Here's another one of the lots from this fascinating collection.
-Editor
122 x 58 mm. This company was organized by an American, Julius H. Preston, who also became its president. Though the note shows a pineapple, the company was engaged heavily in banana production. The most prominent collector of Dominican Republic notes tried to buy this same piece from me about 25 years ago; he never succeeded in locating another example. Uniface. Multiple pinholes, some faded red overprinted lines at left; well used yet fully intact and overall quite pleasing. A once in a lifetime offer! Neil Shafer adds: Lot 5290 is an excellent example of what the token collectors go through constantly- the well-used condition of what is apparently the sole survivor of a given issue. If the highest profile collector cannot locate an example with all the connections he must have built over the years, then you know for a fact that the piece is a rarity.
To read the complete lot description, see:
NL 50 Centavos 18xx (ca. 1880)
(www.lynknight.com/ShowAuctionDetails.Asp?auction_Id=222300)
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