Lot 4500

Description

Randell & Scott, Lang's Crossing, Hay, Murrum Bidgee, ten shillings, Hay Novr.5th 1861 No.75, vignette of steam ship in centre, imprint (faint) H.Berger Lit. Payable also in Adelaide (cf Nicholson lot 1631) (see Mira, W.J.D., 'From Riverboat to Iron Horse' MCC, Sydney 1990, p16). Trimmed to border, many folds, creases and tears, stuck down (as usual) to thick backing paper or card, fair and excessively rare, the only known example of this denomination.

The repairer has doubled up on the n's in ten on the left. Ex Noble Numismatics Sales 54 (lot 3156), Sale 59 (lot 3105), Sale 71 (lot 2902) The John Pettit Collection, Sale 78 (lot 4614) and Sale 79 (lot 2898).