| Description |
Austin, TX - Republic of Texas $3 July 9, 1840 Cr. A3, Olson 756, Medlar 23. PCGS Very Fine 30. A bold $3 note from a very popular issue. Another beautifully engraved note from Endicott & Clark, New Orleans. The seated allegorical female at top center leans on a shield with a single star and gestures to the tools that are beside her. A wharf scene is in the background. Plate A is seen to the left, and a denomination die is further left. Ends show denomination blocks with a cotton plant at the center at left, and THREE vertically over an ornate background at the right. The base vignette shows a charming scene of a horse being watered. Noted as "Cross-Cut Cancelled" as is most often the case with those cancellations closed from the blank back with glassine tape; noted by PCGS as such. Well margined for the type and especially wide at the top. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
From Newman X (Heritage Auctions, November 2018), lot 20472, realized $720. |
