Catalogue
One dollar, Coombs/Wilson, type one specimen, AAA 000000 (Mc DS1). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $8,000
Passed in
Twenty dollars, Coombs/Wilson (1966) type two specimen, XAA 000000 (Mc DS 10). Faint photo album or striation lines, good extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $5,000
SOLD $4,800
One dollar, Phillips/Wheeler (1974) BLG 000000 specimen note, type 3, overprinted SPECIMEN in red twice on front and back of note, NO VALUE in red on both front and back, and SPECIMEN No.0137 in red on front of note (Mc DS 16). Three tiny pin holes in top left corner, photo album striation lines on both sides, otherwise nearly uncirculated and very rare.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $3,000
Two dollars, Phillips/Wheeler (1974) HBQ 000000 specimen note, type 3, overprinted SPECIMEN in red twice on front and back of note, NO VALUE in red on both front and back, and SPECIMEN No.0137 in red on front of note (Mc DS 17). Two tiny pin holes in top left corner, photo album striation lines on both sides, otherwise nearly uncirculated and very rare.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $3,650
Five dollars, Phillips/Wheeler (1974) NKG 000000 specimen note, type 3, overprinted SPECIMEN in red twice on front and back of note, NO VALUE in red on both front and back, and SPECIMEN No.0137 in red on front of note (Mc DS 18). Two tiny pin holes in top left corner, photo album striation lines on both sides, otherwise nearly uncirculated and very rare.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $4,050
Ten dollars, Phillips/Wheeler (1974) TBC 000000 specimen note, type 3, overprinted SPECIMEN in red twice on front and back of note, NO VALUE in red on both front and back, and SPECIMEN No.0137 in red on front of note (Mc DS 19). Two tiny pin holes in top left corner, photo album striation lines on both sides, otherwise nearly uncirculated and very rare.
Estimate $4,000
SOLD $4,650
Twenty dollars, Phillips/Wheeler (1974) XGY 000000 specimen note, type 3, overprinted SPECIMEN in red twice on front and back of note, NO VALUE in red on both front and back, and SPECIMEN No.0137 in red on front of note (Mc DS 20). Two tiny pin holes in top left corner, photo album striation lines on both sides, otherwise nearly uncirculated and very rare.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $4,550
Fifty dollars, Phillips/Wheeler (1973) YAA 000000 specimen note, type 3, overprinted SPECIMEN in red twice on front and back of note, NO VALUE in red on both front and back, and SPECIMEN No.0150 in red on front of note (Mc DS 21). Traces of photo album striation lines on both sides, otherwise nearly uncirculated and very rare.
Estimate $7,000
SOLD $6,800
Ten dollars, Johnston/Fraser (1988) specimen polymer commemorative, AA00 000000 SPECIMEN No.1724 (McDS29). Nearly uncirculated and rare.
Estimate $18,000
Passed in
Fifty dollars, Fraser/Evans (1995), AA95 000000, SPECIMEN No.0084 (Mc.DS33). In folder of issue with letter of presentation to Ms Sumner to 'mark the occasion of your great great uncle, David Unaipon, appearing in the new Australian $50 note'. Uncirculated and historically important.
Estimate $15,000
Passed in
Five dollars, Macfarlane/Evans (1997) CA 97 000000 (R.218). Uncirculated and very rare as a zero specimen number note from a one-off sheet.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $3,000