Private Bank Issues
Lot 2883 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) Private Bank Issues
Estimate $2,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $6,400
THE CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK LIMITED, uniface five pounds, Melbourne, 1st April 1877 (date printed), not numbered (No.A printed), unsigned specimen note, stamped 'Specimen' in red ink in signature field, cancelled with two holes, imprint of Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co Engravers & c London, on thick paper (MVR p.125-126, fig.134a, 134b). Good extremely fine and rare.
Ex.Spink Auctions (Australia) Sale No.20 (lot 1945) November 1986.
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Lot 2881
BANK OF VICTORIA LIMITED, ten pounds, Melbourne, undated (18- printed), No.A 00,001 / A 10,000, ...
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Lot 2882
BANK OF VICTORIA, uniface twenty pounds, Melbourne, undated (18- printed), not numbered, unsigned printers proof ...
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Lot 2883 This lot
THE CITY OF MELBOURNE BANK LIMITED, uniface five pounds, Melbourne, 1st April 1877 (date printed), ...
Estimate $2,500
Lot 2884
THE COLONIAL BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, uniface one pound, Melbourne, 30th June 1872 (date printed), not ...
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Lot 2885
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, one pound 'Ein Pfund', Adelaide, 1st day of November ...
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