Last weekend, it was revealed that someone had located a small collection of checks signed by famous people in bank storage, including one signed by Abraham Lincoln dated just two days before his death. The sesquicentennial Civil War blog at The Washington Post, "A House Divided," has a nice entry about the check, including comments from Harold Holzer about its likely purpose. Holzer rightly comments on the emotional importance of the artifact because it is from the final week of Lincoln's life.
Images of Lincoln's check, and a couple of other presidential checks found in the collection, are available from this Washington Post article.
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