Private Bank Issues
Lot 2945 Session 10 (7.30pm Thursday) Private Bank Issues
Estimate $10,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $11,200
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, one pound, emergency issue, issued at Sydney, 15th May, 1893, No.A 077181, hand signed by Manager John Potts and entered by P.Allen?, watermarked paper, with imprint in centre of bottom, 'John Sands, Sydney' (Vort-Ronald, p.67-85 on bank, and similar note illustrated as Fig.80, without 1's in corner, Renniks MVR 9). Folds and creases, missing portions of edging on two sides, large tear across half of the note, and many other smaller tears, otherwise nearly very good and excessively rare, the only note ever offered for sale.
This Bank of New South Wales one pound note is one of the rarest and most important note issues from this Pre-Federation period. It was issued at a time of great banking crises.
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