Lot 3042
Sale 88 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, Dr John Chapman Collection
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Description
Van Diemen's Land, Lempriere & Company, four Spanish dollars, Hobart Town, June 1823, No L 100, imprint Engraved by S. Clayton Sydney, entered by C. Boucher and hand signed by T.J. Lempriere, red brown print on white. Right side frayed and torn away otherwise full and nearly fine, very rare being an uncrossed note not used as a court exhibit.
Has been in a frame together with a newspaper photo clipping, as displayed by the owner, a direct descendant of Lempriere, whose family tree goes back to William the Conqueror's time in the Channel Islands.
- Estimate
- $4,000
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $3,000