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1862-3 LEGAL TENDER CLASSIFICATION GUIDEPeter Huntoon and Doug Murray have developed a classification guide for the large size U.S. Legal Tender Notes issued in 1862 and 1863. They have published their work on the Newman
Numismatic Portal for all to use. Peter provided this background on the project. -Editor
 The most difficult large size United States type notes to classify by Friedberg number are the 1862-3 Legal Tender notes. Vexing is that the diagnostics used to discriminate between the multitude of varieties are subtle and confusing. Adding to the confusion is that the ad hoc Friedberg numbers that were assigned to them are not in chronological order because many of those numbers were assigned in the order in which the varieties were discovered.
Eventually this spreadsheet will be published with an article showing photos of the diagnostics. In the meantime those of you who work with these notes will find this spreadsheet to be self-explanatory and helpful. Thanks to Peter, Doug and Len Augsburger at the Newman Portal for making this work available to the community. -Editor
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