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Auction: 22172 - British Banknotes - e-Auction
Lot: 2517

Down Thornton & Co. (Down, Thornton and Free), 2 letters addressed to the Royal Bank in Edinburgh, dated 19 September 1799 and 16 May 1800, referring to payments
Henry Thornton has been referred to as the founding figure behind the concept of the modern Central Bank and was an important and influential economist and evangelist as well as a prominent opponent of the slave trade. Good very fine and rare (2)

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