Lot 4374
Sale 112 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals, Tokens & Banknotes
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand, L.Lefeaux, one pound, 1st August 1934, A 000001 (P.155). Attached by the edges to a cardboard frame with an inscription 'To the Rt. Hon. J.G.Coates/With the compliments of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand/August 1st 1934'. Minor foxing and some fading having been in a frame on the wall of the family home, otherwise extremely fine and a unique number one note.
Presented to Joseph Gordon Coates, (Minister of Finance from January 1933 to November 1935) and Chairman of the Designs Committee. A previous Prime Minister (1925-28), he was instrumental in passing the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act in 1933 which established the Central Bank.
- Estimate
- $25,000
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $25,000