One of the highlights of the Whitman Baltimore Spring Expo this year was Stack’s Bowers Galleries official auction of the Joel. R. Anderson Collection Part I, in which two rare $1000 notes sold for almost $1 million each.
The first of two notes that tied at $960,000 was an 1863 $1,000 Legal Tender Note. The Friedberg 186d example was graded About New 58 by PCGS Currency.
According to the cataloger, “just four examples of the 1862 and 1863-dated $1,000 Legal Tender Notes are known to collectors, with only two in private hands, this being the finest graded.”