Private Bank Issues
Lot 2796 Session 10 (7.30pm Thursday) Private Bank Issues
Estimate $4,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $3,800
EXCELSIOR BANK, one pound Sydney 18- no.8040 (MVR fig 173, p.162) imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co London. Unissued with full left margin, virtually uncirculated and rare.
The Excelsior Bank was founded in 1880 as a building society with a banking department. It failed in the crisis of 1893.
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Lot 2796 This lot
EXCELSIOR BANK, one pound Sydney 18- no.8040 (MVR fig 173, p.162) imprint of Perkins Bacon ...
Estimate $4,000
Lot 2797
THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, unissued one pound, to be issued at Sydney, not dated (c.1855), ...
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Lot 2798
THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, one pound, Melbourne, Victoria, Augt 1st 1882, A13284 , issued note, ...
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