Stacks Bowers Galleries Sells 1891 $1,000 Marcy Silver Certificate For $2.6 Million
Stacks Bowers Galleries, a subsidiary of Spectrum Group International, Inc. (SPGZ), announces the sale of five of the finest large-size Silver Certificates. In addition to the five privately placed notes, more than 80 Silver Certificates will be placed in Stacks Bowers Galleries Official Auction of the ANA Worlds Fair of Money, which will take place in Chicago, Ill., August 9-18. The entire collection of over 85 large-size Silver Certificates is the finest ever formed, valued in the high seven figures, and represents the largest private transaction in the history of paper money collecting. The transaction was assisted and facilitated by Sergio Sanchez Jr.