New Zealand Banknotes
Lot 3020 Session 10 (7.30pm Thursday) New Zealand Banknotes
Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $800
NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE CURRENCY, (Edward Dorset), currency note for one pound, Tarankai (New Plymouth), 1845, also payable at Medical Hall, Wellington, with small circular watermark of crown surrounded by legend 'extra superfine satin', (Sutherland (280), 285 [p.195], cf.Robb [p.39 illustrated]). Unissued as usual, extremely fine and very rare.
A curious aspect of this note is the statement of 'promise to pay the bearer in Government Debentures or specie here...' see note above.
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Lot 3018
THE UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND LIMITED, five pounds, Glasgow/Edinburgh, 3rd November 1952, B 744/162 (PS.817a, ...
Estimate $120
Lot 3019
FITZROY DEBENTURE, one pound sterling, Auckland, 1st June 1844, bearing interest of 5% and payable ...
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Lot 3020 This lot
NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE CURRENCY, (Edward Dorset), currency note for one pound, Tarankai (New Plymouth), 1845, ...
Estimate $1,500
Lot 3021
NEW ZEALAND PRIVATE CURRENCY, (Edward Dorset), currency note for one shilling, Tarankai (New Plymouth), 1845, ...
Estimate $1,500
Lot 3022
SOUTHLAND TREASURY NOTE, specimen issue one pound, Payable at the Treasury Invercargill, not dated (c.1865), ...
Estimate $4,500