Calvin Coolidge's tenure as the 30th President of the United States ended on March 4, 1929. On that exact day, before handing the White House to Herbert Hoover, he wrote this check on the Commercial National Bank for $29.02, payable to one E.G. Buckland. That same morning, Grace Coolidge took the microphone after her husband broadcast his farewell address and delivered her own brief message to the nation: "Good-bye, folks." By afternoon, the Coolidges were on their way back to Northampton, Massachusetts, and eight years in Washington were over. The provenance here is unusually airtight: the check is accompanied by a letter from the president's own son, John Coolidge, dated April 25, 1984, confirming that "this check was drawn the day Pres. & Mrs. Coolidge left Washington for their home in Northampton, Mass. at the end of his term as President of the U.S."

This is believed to be the last check Calvin Coolidge ever signed as president, making it among the most precisely datable presidential signatures in existence. Coolidge had chosen not to run for re-election in 1928, walking away from what many believed would have been a certain victory. He left office quietly, as was his nature, and retired to Northampton, where he lived out his final years. He died less than four years later. A mundane transaction on the surface, this check is the last financial act of a presidency, confirmed in writing by his own son. It measures 6" x 2.75", mounted with the John Coolidge provenance letter on stiff board to an overall size of 10" x 8", and comes fully authenticated with a certificate from John Reznikoff, recognized by both PSA and JSA