New banknotes have just been added to our website and we thought you might want to be amongst the first collectors to find out about it.
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Austria 1000 Kronen Nd (1919) P59 GEF/Unc £7.50 (WAU1429)
Although this large 1000 Kronen note bears the date 1902, it was actually issued in 1919 (P59) At the end of the First World War, the Austrian Hungarian Empire was broken up and Austria became an independent Republic. They are densely engraved in blue. The front has a young girl in a frame with garlands of flowers in her hair. A crowned double-headed eagle is at the centre. The back is the same with the addition of an overprint in red of Deutscheossterriech alongside. Available here in Crisp GEF/Unc.
Bank of England, J.B. Page, £5 Wellington (B336) UNC £28.00 (BEB5710)
The Wellington £5 was introduced in 1971 when J B Page was Chief Cashier at the Bank of England. The portrait of Queen Elizabeth is on the front and a portrait of the Duke of Wellington alongside a vignette from the Peninsular War is on the back. The first notes were printed in sheets of 18 with a continuous watermark of Wellington’s head. Within a short time, however, the Bank changed the way it printed its notes and, in 1973 instead of printing notes in sheets, the Bank employed giant web presses with intaglio printing on the front only and offset litho on the back identified by a small capital 'L' next to the value in the lower left. (B336)
These huge Russia 1000 roubles are dated 1917, the same year as the Russian Revolution (P37) The front has an underprint of a swastika, which at that time was a symbol of peace and did not have the connotations we give it today. On the back, a view of the Duma building is in a frame at the centre. Large notes, about the size of our own white £5 note.
Biafra Trio 5/- 10/- & £1 (P2,3 & 4) Good Fine – VF £12.50 (WBI0200)
The Biafra Civil war raged from 1967 until 1970 and took a terrible toll. During this brief period of secession from Nigeria, Biafra issued its own banknotes. The first issue was in 1967 and then a subsequent series was issued between 1968 and 1969. We offer a trio of notes which actually circulated in Biafra during this terrible time. It comprises the first variety of £1 note (P2) and the 5 and 10 shilling notes from the 2nd series. (P2, 3 and 4) This trio grades Good Fine – VF
These 20,000 rupiah notes issued by Indonesia in 1998 feature the Hindu deity Ganesha, the god of beginnings and remover of obstacles (P138) The symbol of Ganesha’s elephant’s head appears alongside the portrait of Ki Hadjar Dewantara, a leading Indonesia independence activist. The back shows a typical school classroom scene.
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