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Auction: 17043 - The Professor Iain Stevenson Collection and other British Banknotes
Lot: 3211

Bank of England, Frank May, £5, London, 31 July 1874, serial number D/70 05813, black and white, ornate crowned vignette of Britannia top left, value in black tablet low left
(EPM B 206a), split at top right, slight thinning otherwise a perfectly presentable good fine and rare and quite possibly the earliest date extant for a May £5

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