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1837 - Charge Box Notice

United States Gold Half Eagle

24 March 1839 Elizabeth City, North Carolina to Kingston, Massachusetts, $1 due rate for a packet weighing 1 ounce, blue “100" rate handstamp

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An Act of March 3, 1825 established postal rates for “packets” weighing one ounce or more. A one ounce packet was subject to quadruple postage. In this case the single sheet letter was twenty-five cents for distance over 400 miles. The “100" rate handstamp appearing on this cover is exceptional and is the only reported example from this town.
           

1820 960 reis minted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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These 960 reis coins of Brazil were legal tender in the United States and circulated at the value of one dollar. This example was struck over a Spanish Colonial eight reales coin under the Reign of John VI.
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Richard Frajola, May 2006