Specimen, Star & Error Notes
Lot 4566 SESSION 15 (7.30pm Thursday) Specimen, Star & Error Notes
Estimate $90,000
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SOLD $108,000
RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA, presentation album with two of each specimen note, type one Coombs/Wilson (1966) one, two, ten and twenty dollars and Coombs/Randall (1967) five dollars, all with AA prefixes and six zeroes. This album presented to Lady Casey with the compliments of the Reserve Bank of Australia, signed by H.C. Coombs, Governor. The notes tipped into place as issued, uncirculated.
This is one of the 17 special presentation albums as opposed to the standard album of which 191 were issued, and as such is rare.
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