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Auction: 20118 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 30

Australia: Standard Bank of Australia Limited, £5 preference shares, 189[3], #60, black on blue paper, scrollwork at left. A Melbourne based bank that got into financial difficulties during the banking crisis but struggled on for a few years, having been reconstructed in 1890. Suspended payments in 1893 with the hope of a reconstruction which was opposed by many creditors. Interestingly this certificate was issued diuring the time the company was appearing in bankruptcy court appealing for permission to reconstruct. VF and rare type first time seen by us.

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