New Zealand Banknotes
Lot 2905 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) New Zealand Banknotes
Estimate $1,300
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SOLD $2,300
BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, second issue, Napier/Wellington, twenty pounds uniface not dated, not numbered proof, specimen note unsigned, stamped SPECIMEN on paper imprint of Perkins Bacon & Co, London. June 1875 in pencil on bottom margin. This note illustrated in Pick (S114(h)) and is the only known example (Robb 4d). Extremely fine and extremely rare, possibly unique.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 61 (lot 4248).
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Lot 2903
BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, second issue, specimen five pounds, Dunedin, 11th August 1863, imprint Perkins, Bacon ...
Estimate $1,200
Lot 2904
BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, second issue, printer's proof, five pounds, Dunedin 11th October 1864, imprint Perkins, ...
Estimate $1,100
Lot 2905 This lot
BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, second issue, Napier/Wellington, twenty pounds uniface not dated, not numbered proof, specimen ...
Estimate $1,300
Lot 2906
BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, second issue, proof fifty pounds, Auckland, not numbered, imprint of Perkins, Bacon ...
Estimate $600
Lot 2907
BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, second issue, one pound, Wellington, 1st July 1915, No.O 73807, imprint of ...
Estimate $600