New Zealand Banknotes
Lot 3021 Session 10 (7.30pm Thursday) New Zealand Banknotes
Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,400
NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE CURRENCY, (Edward Dorset), currency note for one shilling, Tarankai (New Plymouth), 1845, also payable at Medical Hall, Wellington, with small circular embossed watermark of crown surrounded by legend 'extra superfine satin', (Sutherland 280 and 285 [p.195], cf.Robb [p.39 illustrated]). Unissued as usual, extremely fine and very rare.
A curious aspect of this note is the statement of 'promise to pay the bearer the sum of five shillings in Government Debentures or specie here...' whereas the note is clearly marked one shilling. Edward Dorset, Sutherland notes, of Taranaki, issued a five shilling note (Hocken Library).
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Lot 3019
FITZROY DEBENTURE, one pound sterling, Auckland, 1st June 1844, bearing interest of 5% and payable ...
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Lot 3020
NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE CURRENCY, (Edward Dorset), currency note for one pound, Tarankai (New Plymouth), 1845, ...
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Lot 3021 This lot
NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE CURRENCY, (Edward Dorset), currency note for one shilling, Tarankai (New Plymouth), 1845, ...
Estimate $1,500
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SOUTHLAND TREASURY NOTE, specimen issue one pound, Payable at the Treasury Invercargill, not dated (c.1865), ...
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