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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1756

State of Missouri $1000 6% gold bonds, 1853, #39 and higher, signed by Sterling Price as governor, woman with cornucopia top and upper left, ceres mid left, eagle lower left, all tipped with clipped coupons to larger sheets, apparently at the time of redemption; toned, with some paste stains, fold and edge wear, and backing sheets dry and somewhat brittle, about Fine. Sterling Price (1809-67) would become a Confederate general during the US Civil War; his massive 1864 cavalry raid into his home state, the last major Southern offensive in the West, began well but ended in failure, and he retreated into Texas; he refused to surrender after Lee and Johnston, taking his troops into Mexico, but was compelled to return home, where he died in obscurity. [20]

Estimate
$1,000 to $1,500