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SCARCE CONFEDERATE 4% CALL CERTIFICATE

Ball T-174. Unissued certificate being an incomplete remainder. Large numerical imprint at center. Litho. 4% Call certificate in which "the person to whom this certificate is endorsed by the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer. Or Depository at said place of Deposit, and that notes issued under the Act Feb. 17, 1864, will be delivered to said person or his order, at the said place, or at the Treasury at Richmond, at any time with interest from the date of said endorsement…if not so converted that Certificate shall be paid two years after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States and the United States…This contract is authorized by An Act of Congress entitiled 'An Act to reduce the Currency and to authorize a new issue of Notes and Bonds approved February 17, 1864." Ball lists this as an R7 (11 - 20 known). Printed by Evans and Cogswell, Columbia, S.C. A fine Confederate rarity offering an opportunity to add this seldom seen certificate to an important collection of Confederate bonds. Uncancelled and Very Fine