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May 18, 2009

Signed Abraham Lincoln checks up for auction

The check was for $25.00, drawn on the Springfield (Illinois) Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Made out on Feb. 4, 1860. Signed: A. Lincoln. Sotheby's is selling more than two dozen of the slips of paper, which must have surfaced from some financial archive. (Also offered: a Shakespeare Fourth Folio, est. $150,000 - $200,000.) Estimated price for each cancelled check: $7,000- $10,000.

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About Jay Hancock

Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.

His columns appear Tuesdays and Sundays.

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