Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 2990 Session 10 (7.30pm) Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $10,000
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COMMERCIAL BANK OF SYDNEY, one pound, Sydney 18- (c1875) printer's specimen, light blue print on watermarked paper, multicoloured back, imprint W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh for Cowan & Coy., Sydney (MVR 3?). Several pin holes, printers instructions in margins, otherwise very fine and very rare.
This note along with eight other lots in Noble Numismatics Sale 100, was originally collected by Charles J.Hutchinson, born Orkney Is in 1885. He and his family came to Australia as free settlers in 1888. He was with the CBC and ESA as a bank employee (later manager) from about 1900 onwards.
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THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED, specimen ten pounds, Melbourne, 18-, discordant serial numbers, No. ...
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Lot 2989
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, one pound 'Ein Pfund', Adelaide, 1st day of November ...
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Lot 2990 This lot
COMMERCIAL BANK OF SYDNEY, one pound, Sydney 18- (c1875) printer's specimen, light blue print on ...
Estimate $10,000
Lot 2991
COMMERCIAL BANK OF SYDNEY, contemporary forgery, one pound, Sydney, 1st July 1889, No. A 992044, ...
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Lot 2992
THE COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY OF SYDNEY LIMITED, one pound sterling, [1] day March 19[1]0, No.H061150, ...
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