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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1791

County of New York (NY), Bank checks drawn by the county treasurer on the Broadway Bank, 1862-64, nearly all to pay "Riot Damages"! Signed by mayors, one endorsed on verso by William M Tweed, city arms, all blue with red overprint, a few with edge damage, but large majority good VF-VF+ and better. The New York Draft Riots of 1863 left parts of the city in ruins and hundreds dead; worst off were blacks, whom rioters blamed for the Civil War; at least a dozen men were lynched by angry mobs, and the Colored Orphan Asylum was burned to the ground. [69]

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