New Zealand Banknotes
Lot 4194 Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday) New Zealand Banknotes
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $800
R.L.KNIGHT, (1975-77), two dollars de la Rue specimen note, number letter number, 2C5 000000 overprinted SPECIMEN diagonally across the note in red and oval overprints in two corners, hole cancelled, and numbered 012, (Robb R.324; L.658, P.164c). Adhesive mark and stain on back along left margin where originally mounted in a specimen book. Nearly extremely fine and very rare, the only example recorded by de Young (p21).
Ex Spink Australia Sale 21 (lot 2025) and Noble Numismatics Sale 54 (lot 3130, The Ross Meads Collection).
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