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Auction: 25200 - World, British and Irish Banknotes - e-Auction
Lot: 390

(x) Bank of Scotland, Contemporary Forgery, £1, Edinburgh, 1st August 1812, serial number 41/82, An interesting historical item, this is a forgery created by a French prisoner of war held in Edinburgh Castle and Penicuik during the Napoleonic wars. These POWs used bone and wood to make dies and seals to create the notes,
(PMS BA 55c forgery), good, pieces missing, mounted

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