Sale 1362 — The El Dorado Collection of Superb United States Stamps
Sale Date — Tuesday-Thursday, 7-9 October, 2025
Category — 1915-16 Washington-Franklin Issues (448-461)
2c Red, Ty. I, Coil (449). Essentially perfectly centered, brilliant color, flag machine cancel
EXTREMELY FINE GEM. A SPECTACULAR USED EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT VERTICAL COIL, SCOTT 449, GRADED SUPERB 98 BY P.S.E — EASILY ONE OF THE FINEST IN EXISTENCE.
The 2c Type I rotary plate was used very briefly to make vertical coils issued in late 1915. It was briefly used because the Type I plate was not very deeply engraved and the curvature of the rotary press yielded impressions lacking in some of the details. The Bureau noticed this immediately, and quickly replaced it with the Type III plate (according to Scott, the EDU for No. 449 is Oct. 29, 1915, and the EDU for Type III is Dec. 10, 1915).
With 1981 P.F. and 2008 P.S.E. certificates (Superb 98). Only one used single grades higher (at 100) and two share this grade.
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