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Lot 296
Two Early Southern Newspapers and a Reconstruction Era $5 Note
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The newspapers both 4 pages, folio, and in good condition, as follows:Charleston Courier, Charleston, South Carolina, April 2, 1804, the lead story being a boastful French prediction of their imminent conquest of England; and The Enquirer, Richmond, Virginia, May 18, 1807, containing news from Europe, Asia, and Kentucky; plus, a State of South Carolina $5 Bond Scrip note, March 2, 1872, with Francis Marion vignette, Crisp Uncirculated.

A private New York collection