New Zealand Banknotes
Lot 2465 Session 8 (2.30pm) New Zealand Banknotes
Estimate $3,500
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SOLD $2,800
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND LIMITED, only issue, proof twenty pounds, uniface, no branch domicile or date, imprint of Perkins, Bacon & Co. London, SPECIMEN stamped below in 'Chief Manager' area (Robb I.16b; L.-; P.S.). Dirty and scuffed with rough edges, otherwise very fine.
Robb states this to be a minor sub-type of the first issue, whereas Pick describes it as a 'second issue' prepared but never released. Ex Perkins Bacon Archive, Spink (Melbourne) Sale, 23 May 1995 (lot 1120).
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