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Heath Counterfeit Detector Second Pocket Edition, Newman 2-P-s-5Boston and Washington: Heath, 1866. Second edition. 16mo, original blindstamped russet cloth; front cover lettered sideways in gilt. 39, (5) pages; double-page plate of impressions of genuine and counterfeit fractional currency notes following the title; unnumbered folding plate showing both sides of a counterfeit $100 First National Bank of Boston note in green and black; unnumbered folding plate showing both sides of a counterfeit $10 First National Bank of Philadelphia note in green and black; Treasury Department letter facsimile on tissue stock; 17 engraved numbered plates of bank note design elements with original tissue guards, interspersed out of numerical sequence in the text, plates 2 and 5 serving as frontispieces, plate 5 printed in green ink, plate 15 being an engraved folding Heath bank note facsimile, and plate 16 being a folding facsimile of a counterfeit $5 Bank of Orleans note taken from captured engraved plates, several plate numbers overprinted; four pages featuring four Heath microscope illustrations printed one per page. Eric P. Newman stated that while this variant always has the $100 Boston plate, it is encountered with either the $10 Philadelphia plate or the $20 New York plate, or occasionally both. This copy was probably issued without the $20 plate. Binding a bit loose; very good. Estimate $400 Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15259 (realized $480).
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