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Auction: 17032 - British Banknotes
Lot: 3462

Bank of England, E. M. Harvey, £5, London, 10 November 1924, serial number 043/E 77949, black and white, ornate crowned vignette of Britannia top left, value in black tablet low left
(EPM B209), ink annotation on reverse ''Norge'' The North Pole May 12th-1926' Roald Amundsen' . Amundsen was the first person to reach the North Pole in 1911 and in 1926 he became the first person to fly (and verified as such) over the North Pole in the Italian built airship 'Norge' arriving at 01:25. Good very fine and historically most interesting

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