Auction: 13004 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1517
A Portals album in marbled slip case, containing a selection of notes printed using Portals watermarked paper as in use in 1955 and including Australia, Coombs-Wilson £1 (Pick 30), Austria 500 schilling, 1953 (Pick 134), Belgian Congo 20 francs 1953 (Pick 26), British Caribbean Territories $2, 1954 (Pick 8b), Commercial Bank £1, 1955 (PS 336), Fiji, 10/-, 1951 (Pick 38, date unlisted but 1951 illustrated), Greece 10 drachmai, 1954 (Pick 189a), India, Reserve Bank 10 rupees, serial number K/49 000010 (Pick 37), Jamaica, £1, 1955 (Pick 41b), Jordan 1 dinar, 1949 (Pick 6), Malaya and British Borneo $10, 1953 (Pick 3a), New Zealand £1, ND (1955), (Pick 159b), Pakistan 1 rupee, serial number F/15 000022 (Pick 9), Southern Rhodesia £1, 1954 (Pick 13c), Turkey 2 1/2 lirasi (Pick 151), West Africa 20/-, 1954 (Pick 10a), also various minor notes,
all are mounted individually in a blue leather album with gold trim, a lovely presentation, the notes slightly crinkled from mounting otherwise crisp uncirculated and many scarce types (25)
Sold for
£4,400