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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 1076

(x) Government of Gibraltar, Emergency World War I issue, £5, 6 August 1914, Series A, black serial number A1160, black text on grey-blue paper, manuscript signature of the Colonial Treasurer Alfred Craven Greenwood low right, faint CANCELLED handstamp across face of note
(Pick 4, TBB B104a), watermark E.BAYNES & CO LONDON and printed by Beanland Malin & Co. All notes apart from 2 redeemed by the Gibraltar Treasury thus one of only two examples believed extant. Mounting marks at corners and toning to paper otherwise very fine and extremely rare

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£14,000