Going through my collection tonight, it seems like forever since I have sat down and actually looked through and enjoyed it that some of it is like new discovery. I only have 2 courtesy signed notes but wouldn't pass up the opportunity to get more. I am posting the photos of my two, please feel free to post yours as well.
Insignificant when he signed this note, a bit over three months later he appended his signature to the Declaration of Independence. One of the signers of this note, the centre signature, is of John Hart. John Hart was born ca. 1711 in Connecticut, his ancestry going into the 17th century in New England. John Hart began a political career with his election to the Hunterdon County Board of Freeholders in 1750, later on he would be elected into the colonial Assembly of New Jersey. When the latter legislature was dissolved he joined the Committee of Safety and the Committee of Correspondence. He would go on to become a member of the first New Jersey provincial congress, and was elected it's vice president in early 1776. During the First Continental Congress this assembly was opposed to independence and was subsequently dissolved. Mr. Hart would then join a new assembly, this time in favour of independence and would a mere few months after signing this note, go on to join the New Jersey delegation that signed the Declaration of Independence. As he was now a marked man by the British, during the Battle of Trenton he had to go into hiding. During that time his farm was raided and damaged by British and Hessian soldiers, but the defeat of the British at the battle permitted his return to his home. Hart would continue to serve New Jersey as an assemblyman, and Committee of Safety member until his death in 1779.
Here’s one you don’t see everyday. A dual courtesy autographed note by two of the BEP engravers that worked on the design of the note. Each engraver autographed the side of the note they worked on, and as a bonus, they chose a replacement note.
Here is mine: I found it in circulation in 2014. Feel free to read my original post about it here: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/strap-stackers-post-your-results.66215/page-55#post-1988417. I'm still waiting for an answer to my question about it from someone, haha.
I checked some SOLD auction results and most modern circulated autographed notes sell for between $20 to $50, sometimes more if graded and authenticated. I have a Cabral autographed note in a Cabral autographed holder.
The sheet was signed by the treasurer Catalina Vasquez Villapando on January 10, 1992. She served as treasurer under the George Herbert Walker Bush administration from December 11, 1989 to January 20, 1993. During her time in office there were no $2 notes issued so she signed a sheet from 1976, which is pretty odd. Usually the officials of the treasury only sign the notes with their own signature on it.
