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Auction: 18014 - World Banknotes Online Auction
Lot: 2082

Bank of Poyais, British Honduras, $1, 2 May 1824, serial number 7086, uniface, black and white, arms top centre flanked by value and bank title, Hall/Gordon signature, bank title in vertical panel at left
small hole at right, otherwise very fine and as an issued note, exceptionally rare. Poyais was a Scottish settlement on the coast of present day Honduras founded by Gregor MacGregor, a colourful hero of the liberation of South America from Spain a few years earlier. It ultimately proved catastrophic for both investors and settlers, leaving only worthless land grants and bonds as testimony to this ill-fated venture, together with approximately five or so one dollar notes,
good very fine

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