Lot 2893
Sale 97 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
Bank of Van Diemen's Land, twenty pounds fraudulently altered from one pound, Hobart, July 1st 1837, No 9420, hand signed by W. Bunster and Charles McLachlan, payable to E. Wilkinson, without imprint but engraved by Thomas Bock, signed on back 'Mrs Johnston' (MVR.p108-12). Torn in half and stuck down to a single sheet, lower left corner off, otherwise good and extremely rare, the finest of two known.
Ex Spink Australia Sale 25 (lot 534), the other was in the Nicholson Collection (Sale 49, lot 1550) but was dated 1832, both survived as exhibits in a court case and both were to E. Wilkinson.
- Estimate
- $10,000
- Result Status
- Passed in