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Auction: 5004 - Banknotes of the World
Lot: 422

Union Bank of Australia, proof £50, Melbourne, 18-, black and white, Britannia and allegorical symbols top centre, head of Queen Victoria top left (designed by Corbould), value top right, value lower left, (V.R-), pencil date '1852' lower centre, black handstamp SPECIMEN lower right, a Perkins, Bacon & Co engraving, slightly scuffed otherwise almost extremely fine and extremely rare. Interestingly a large number of Perkins Union Bank proofs were sold in a Spink auction in Melbourne 1995, none similar to this example Estimate £ 800-1,200 Provenance: Marcus Samuel

Sold for
£2,600