New Zealand Banknotes

Sale 107    18–20 Nov 2014   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 2477    Session 8 (2.30pm Wednesday 19th November)    New Zealand Banknotes

Estimate $80,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au

RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, L.Lefeaux, one pound, 1st August 1934, A 000001 (P.155). Attached by the edges to a cardboard frame with an inscription 'To the Rt. Hon. J.G. Coates/With the compliments of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand/August 1st 1934', minor foxing and some fading having been in a frame on the wall of the family home, otherwise extremely fine and a unique number one note.

Presented to Joseph Gordon Coates, (Minister of Finance from January 1933 to November 1935) and Chairman of the Designs Committee. A previous Prime Minister (1925-28), he was instrumental in passing the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act in 1933 which established the Central Bank.

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