Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Lot 3921 Session 15 (7.30pm Thursday) Aust. Banknotes - Private Bank Issues
Estimate $12,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $20,000
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, receipt for second instalment of twenty five pounds for subscription for one share of Bank Capital Stock, No 29 dated 1st Day of April 1817, from John Wentworth by the Lord D (D'Arcy) Wentworth, signed E.S.Hall Cashier and Mr. Thos. Campbell (President). Extremely fine, the only example in private hands and of the utmost significance as the earliest known piece of scrip for Australia.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 80 (lot 2801).
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Lot 3919
THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, one pound, Launceston, 14th July 1853, No 45300, signed Chas Thomson ...
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Lot 3920
THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, uniface black and white printer's proof on paper, ten pounds, Brisbane, ...
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Lot 3921 This lot
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, receipt for second instalment of twenty five pounds for subscription ...
Estimate $12,000
Lot 3922
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Share Certificate for one hundred pounds, 31 May 1832, printed ...
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Lot 3923
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, domicile North Brisbane, issued in Moreton Bay, one pound, [1] ...
Estimate $8,000