Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 2587 SESSION 10 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL) Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $3,000
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SOLD $1,800
TEMPLE TAVERN, Adelaide, Twopence, currency note, August 10, 1852 (printed date), no. 267, on unwatermarked paper, signed by E.Solomon, stating on front 'I Promise to pay the bearer, on demand, the sum of TWOPENCE in cash here, Or, if required, any number of these Notes amounting to even Pounds, in Bank Notes of this Province', Dark blue on light blue, (this note illustrated Vort Ronald..Shinplaster ..p.109). Four major folds and several minor folds, some discolouration on back, otherwise good fine and very rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 49 (lot 1620) from the Dr.Alan Nicholson Collection.
The issue is very similar to the E.J.F.Crawford issue for the Hindmarsh Hotel for five shillings (see illustration p.52, Australian Numismatic Journal, 1976). An interesting historical note issued in a year and place important to Australian numismatics.
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