Private Bank & Pre Decimal Issues
Lot 4324 SESSION 15 (7.30pm Thursday) Private Bank & Pre Decimal Issues
Estimate $10,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $12,500
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, bill on the English Treasury, Commissariat Office, Hobart Town, 20 August 1823 (182 printed), No.145, to Capt. James Dixon, for £150.0.0, hand signed by Lt. Governor William Sorell and A. Moodie, black on white, unwatermarked paper, for presentation to Whitehall, London, engraved by Samuel Clayton (MVR illustrates a similar example Fig.12 [p.11-12]). Extremely fine, and very rare, probably the only example in private hands.
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