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Scott Number: R15c Collection Reference No. for Communications: 4433

Denomination/Type: 2c U.S. Internal Revenue, perforated

2025 Scott Catalog Value (for a single stamp): $ 0.25

Estimated Retail Value: $ 300.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Handstamped - Circle

Cancel Color: Black

Cancel Date: September 26, 1868

Cancel or Company Type: Bank, Banker, or Broker

Company: C. F. Adae

City: Cincinnati

State: Ohio

Purchased from a seller in Germany, this is an R15c on an attractive foreign exchange with two vignettes from the European Exchange Office of C. F. Adae, a Cincinnati, Ohio banking house. Not only is there a German revenue stamp also affixed to the reverse (combination usages of both U.S. and non-U.S. revenue stamps on the same document from this era are quite scarce), but the R15c is tied not only by a C.F. Adae circular handstamp cancel, but also a blue oval of Reverchon & Co., a German banking house in Trier. Fantastic document!

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