Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 3040 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $22,000
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SOLD $19,500
THE GOVERNMENT OF QUEENSLAND, Queensland Treasury Note, specimen five pounds, uniface, Treasury, Brisbane, Novr. 1st 1866, No., imprint of the Government Printing Office, Brisbane, 'Cancelled/G.W' handwritten vertically across front (MVR p.197). Centre fold, otherwise good extremely fine and excessively rare, possibly the only known surviving example of a five pound note.
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