Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

$20 scrip issued Nov. 1, 1853 from the Mechanics Bank. Signed by the bank's president and cashier. Many vignettes: allegorical figure on chariot...

Sheriff of Wabash County, IN, issued arrest warrant for John R. Reeves to be hold in in the amount of $300 bail, October, 1867, for passing counterfei

Leverich & Co. New Orleans, June 2, 1868. Printed by D. Felt & Co. Small steamboat vignette top center. Adhesive revenue stamp attached with...

One share of stock issued to William Taylor (of Great Britain) on June 30th, 1798. Seal with ship vignette on left side. Measures approx. 4" x ...

Not ever seen by us. Two pieces of $5 scrip, No. 109 and 116, both issued April 1st, 1866. Vignette upper left featuring horse and an eagle. To S.M. D

Probably used for gold coins. stamped with: Bank of Rockville, Rockville, MO. City: Rockville State: Missouri, Date: FHWA

Nine Page & Bacon CDs, all 1854, St. Louis dateline. Blue font and four allegorical vignettes. Delicate paper. Creases, toning, soiling and some...

Three exchanges, all dated 1855, St. Louis, Missouri. Allegorical vignette of woman (left) and horses (top right). American Bank Note Co. Delicate pap

1) 1853 blue text and vignettes (allegorical). 2) 1855 black text and vignettes (allegorical and horses). Delicate paper with creases, punch holes and

Four unissued pictorial scrip of different denominations for the Manhattan Silver Mining Company. $1 (black), $5 (green), $10 (blue), and $20 (brown).

Seven different denominations of this colored scrip: $1, $3, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100. All different colors. All RN-D1. Mining vignette. Unissued. Exce

1) Carson City Savings Bank stock certificate. No. 56, issued for 5 shares on Feb. 7, 1883 to E.M. Hunt. Signed by Hunt as cashier and the president.

This box is full of many different types of documents that span the history of the Bullion & Exchange Bank (and later, the State Bank & Trus...

Lot of 41. Most pictorial. Nevada banking documents made during the Comstock. Includes: thirty illustrated deposit slips with eagle and coin vignettes

Code (cypher) booklet for the Bullion and Exchange Bank for the account of R. M. Clarke. Code words from letter A's through letter D's for o...

Six typed letters on Department of Interior, United States Indian Service letterhead, each addressed to the State Bank and Trust Co. in Carson City, N

This is the first one of these we have ever seen! It is also only one of two Nevada advertising scrip that we know of; the other known ad. note is fro

Lot of 10 canvas and paper bags from the First National Bank of Ely. Also a postal cover from 1919. City: Ely State: Nevada, Date:

Another Nevada bank condition report (see other lots). "As Required by the Comptroller of the Currency at the Close of Business, June 29th, 192...

This fabulous piece of scrip (possibly the best known) represents one of the most important (if not the most important) strike by the members of the I