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Auction: 5024 - The Karouni Collection of English Banknotes Part III
Lot: 20

Bank of England, F. May, £100, London, 12 October 1878, serial number 68/C 80908, black and white, ornate crowned vignette of Britannia top left, value in black tablet low left (B206ff), on banking paper with red ink annotation "The numbers and date of this note have been altered, 3 June 1880", the annotation has a manuscript signature of F.May. very good but presentable and of the highest rarity Estimate £ 14,000-16,000

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