Pre-Decimal Banknotes
Lot 2910 Session 10 (7.30pm Wednesday) Pre-Decimal Banknotes
Estimate $180,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $245,000
TEN SHILLINGS, Collins-Allen (1913), M000004, red serial numbers with prefix letter M, (R.1a, Vort-Ronald 1a, Nicholson 1-ii and This Note illustrated p.124), printed May 1, 1913, presentation note to Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia, (his signed explanation of note issues in a letter see lot below). Two small stains on back, otherwise nearly uncirculated, very rare, and second lowest number available to collectors.
Ex Stanley Gibbons Auction (London) 1976, and Dr Alan Nicholson Collection, Sale 49 (lot 1688 part).
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