Australian Banknotes - Australian Decimal Issues
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Lot 2925 SESSION 9 (4.30pm Wednesday 22 July) Australian Banknotes - Australian Decimal Issues
Estimate $1,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
AUSTRALIAN BANKS, Johnston/Stone (1983) twenty dollars, in ten folded bundles of ten notes each, printed as "dummy notes" for use with an electronic tracking device in centre of eight middle bundles with square cut out. Extremely fine.
Tellers would hold the packs with the hidden device to include in notes stolen during a robbery at the bank counter, allowing police to track and locate the notes and suspects.
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Lot 2925 This lot
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Estimate $1,000
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FIVE DOLLARS, Knight/Stone (1979) PAF 323385 (R.207) three cm piece of Bank's portrait split off ...
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