Lot 3025

Description

Bank of Australasia, first issue, one pound, here (Auckland) or Wellington (written in), 1st June 1874, No. A10323, imprint of Perkins, Bacon & Co. London, Patent Hardened Steel Plate, (L.401, P.S111m, Robb 3a). Light folds and corner crease, otherwise nearly very fine and excessively rare, the earliest known issued note from this bank and the only one known of this type.

Ex Pacific Coin Company Ltd., 1991, and Noble Numismatics Sale 54 (lot 2994, The Ross Meads Collection).