Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 3926 Session 15 (7.30pm Thursday) Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $5,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,200
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, ten pounds, Sydney, 1 Oct 1881 (faded) (18- printed), A/A 30571, signed by W.B. Hawthorne and entered by J.H.Potts, imprint of Charles Skipper & East London (MVR 7c). Rust marks and edge loss at top, colour fade out on front, otherwise very fine and very rare.
Ex New England Hoard (No.120); Geoff K.Gray Sales December 1971 and March 1972; Dr Alan Nicholson Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 49 (lot 1542); Sale 71 (lot 2944) and S.N.Agnew Collection.
The Bank of New South Wales ten pound notes of this type all come from the New England Hoard of 1971, (Pitchfork & Freehill, 'A Significant Hoard of Nineteenth Century Australian Commercial Banknotes' [ANS 1974 Yearbook]), where some 8 ten pound notes were found out of a total hoard of 123 banknotes which were mostly of the five pounds denomination. Type seven was an issue from the Bank of New South Wales that ran from 1848-1910, with this type for ten pounds in use for most of this period.
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