The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 23, June 5, 2005, Article 22

FORD FRACTIONAL CURRENCY SALE RARITIES

The sales of the John J. Ford. Jr. collection by Stack's
continue to be a source of astounding rarities. The June
13, 2005 sale of United States Fractional Currency has
a number of incredibly rare items, such as an experimental
essay for the fifty cents fractional currency design with a
seated liberty half dollar vignette. Known as the G.W.
Westbrook design, it was initially published in the January
1889 issue of the American Journal of Numismatics. It
was last publicly sold in the 1904 auction of the Charles
Wilcox collection and has been off the market for over
a century.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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