St. Louis, Missouri. Bank of Missouri. Haxby 30-G20a. 1820 $5. PCGS Currency Very Fine 30 Apparent. Small Edge Tears.

Plate B. Murray Draper Fairman & Co. Top, bust of Jefferson on the banks of the Mississippi with ships and rising sun in background. Ornate end panels. Left FIVE and right MISSOURI. Hand signed by Auguste Chouteau as president of the bank. The top vignette, engraved for the bank's sole use is an immensely moving allegory of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase transaction and of course St. Louis lay in that bounteous land acquisition.

From the Caine Collection.

Estimate: $500.00- $700.00