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Auction: 13032 - The David Kirch Collection of English Provincial Banknotes Part III: Wales and West Midlands
Lot: 3155

Hereford City & County Bank (Matthews, Phillipps & Matthews), specimen £50, 18- (c.1848), no serial number, black and white on thin card, value at lower left, top right and centre, vignettes of Herefordshire Cathedral, Hereford Shire Hall and the Preaching Cross at top, printed by Perkins, Bacon & Petch
(see Outing 934l for type, this denomination not seen), mount marks on reverse, handstamped SPECIMEN, pencil annotation dated ´July 15th 1848´, light toning and tear at lower left, otherwise about extremely fine, rare

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