Lot 2713
Sale 106 · Important Australian & World Coins, Tokens, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
The Government of Queensland, Queensland Treasury Note, specimen five pounds, uniface, Treasury, Brisbane, Novr. 1st 1866, No., imprint of the Government Printing Office, Brisbane, 'Cancelled/G.W' handwritten vertically across front (MVR p197). Centre fold, otherwise good extremely fine and excessively rare, possibly the only known surviving example of a five pound note.
See footnote to previous lot.
Ex IAG Sale March 2007 (lot 108) and Noble Numismatics Sale 100 (lot 3040).
- Estimate
- $25,000
- Result Status
- Passed in