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Auction: 7024 - Banknotes of the World
Lot: 1093

Siberia, Ussuri boards, parchement or skin money for 50 kopecks, ND (c.1815), manuscript serial number 78, black text on circular format yellow card, the initials G.T.G. at centre with Russian text around DUE DATE to 1st JANUARY 1816, reverse blue, 50 at centre. Believed to be a forerunner of the Russian- American parchment or ´sealskin´ notes and is believed to be unique and completely unknown to the State Hermitage Museum and in particular its scholars department head Dr. Spassky and Nina Ivochkina when it was brought to their attention during the 1970s. (see Denisov for extensive description and illustration of this interesting note, Page 49), very fine, believed to be the only example recorded in a private collection in the West, possibly unique and an important find Estimate £ 10,000-12,000 Provenance: Kreisberg auction, USA, 1987

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