New Zealand Banknotes
Lot 4248 New Zealand Banknotes
Estimate $700
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $800
THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, New Zealand, Napier Wellington, twenty pounds uniface not dated, not numbered proof, specimen note unsigned, stamped SPECIMEN on paper imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co, London. June 1875 in pencil on bottom margin. This is the actual note illustrated in Pick (S114a(h)) and is the only known example. Extremely fine and extremely rare, possibly unique.
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Lot 4248 This lot
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