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United States 1928G - 2 Dollars Legal Tender Note Red Seal Star Replacement (Friedberg 1508*)

Certified PMG 66 EPQ Gem Uncirculated, this note exhibits pristine margins, rich red overprints, and fully original paper brightness. The EPQ designation affirms exceptional paper originality and unaltered embossing - critical in confirming its untouched condition. The depth of engraving in Jefferson’s portrait and the even color saturation across the overprint layers showcase the technical precision of early small-size intaglio work. Read more →

Japan 1800 - Edo Period 5 Momme Silver Hansatsu with Daikokuten Reverse and Oil Merchant Validation Seal Woodblock Printed on Handmade Washi Paper

The denomination on this piece is Five Momme Silver, written in the traditional silver-weight accounting system used before the modern yen. A momme was a unit of weight, and five momme represented a defined silver value rather than a decimal paper-money denomination. That makes this note especially interesting because it sits directly inside the older Japanese monetary world of weighted silver, commodity exchange, and regional treasury practice. It is not a modern promise to pay yen, but a local paper instrument tied to silver value and accepted through the practical trust networks of Edo-period commerce. Read more →

United States 1929 - 5 Dollars Type 2 National Bank Note - The First National Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Charter 1 (Fr. 1800-2)

Charter 1 defined the origin of federally chartered banking in the United States, anchoring Philadelphia’s financial network through multiple eras: Civil War greenbacks, Gilded Age expansion, and the economic transitions of the early twentieth century. Its officers, including C. H. Chaffee as cashier and Livingston E. Jones as president on this series, carried the institution’s legacy into the small-size note period. Read more →

Australia 1965 - Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited 10 Dollars Travellers Cheque Approved Design Proof (Pick Unlisted)

As an annotated Bradbury Wilkinson and Company approval proof for an unlisted Australian traveller's cheque type, this piece is best understood as a discovery-level archival survivor. Its approval wording, date, control punch, B1 marking, and direct connection to the wider 1965 proof-room trail place it among the most significant known records of The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited's decimal-era traveller's cheque development. Read more →

Australia 1965 - Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited 20 Dollars Travellers Cheque Rejected Design Proof (Pick Unlisted)

As an annotated archival survivor from a discovery-level traveller's cheque approval trail, this piece is of exceptional importance. Its submission date, rejection note, control punch, printed signatures, and exact place within the March to June 1965 design progression elevate it far beyond an ordinary specimen. It is best understood as one of the defining records of The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited's traveller's cheque development, preserving the first formal 20 Dollars design in a rare surviving chain of submission, review, revision, and approval. Read more →

Australia 1965 - Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited 50 Dollars Travellers Cheque Rejected Design Proof (Pick Unlisted)

Rejected design proof for the 50 Dollars traveller's cheque prepared by Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, London, for The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited. Submitted on 23 March 1965 and annotated in the left margin "Not approved, letter 12.4.65," this sheet preserves the top denomination from the first formal design stage of the bank's 1965 traveller's cheque programme. It forms the high-value counterpart to the 20 Dollars rejected design proof submitted on the same date, and together the two pieces define the March 1965 submitted design direction within the surviving Bradbury Wilkinson proof-room sequence. Read more →

Australia 1961 - Bank of New South Wales Sterling Travellers Cheques, Complete Printer’s Proof Set £2-£50 (Pick Unlisted)

The remaining 2 Pounds, 5 Pounds, 20 Pounds, and 50 Pounds sheets are companion numbering proofs from the same printer batch. Their identical paper stock, control-punch placement, handwriting, and synchronized margin notes confirm that the set represents a single production event rather than an accumulation of unrelated proofs. Minor pencil ticks and short filing codes appear on the margins, and the reverses show light archival handling consistent with Bradbury Wilkinson proof-room practice. Read more →

Honduras 1873 - 5 Pesos Treasury Note Billete de Tesoreria, Comayagua (Pick Unlisted)

Catalog and rarity: This issue is unlisted in the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (Pick) and major databases, with no recorded Heritage or Spink sales as of 2025. It represents a previously undocumented variant of the 'Billete de Tesorería' 1873 decree, making it of exceptional historical and numismatic importance within early Honduran fiscal paper. Read more →

Paraguay 1856 - Tesoro Nacional 2 Reales Treasury Note, Earliest National Paper Money (Pick Unlisted, Miguel Pratt MC14)

This 2 Reales Tesoro Nacional Treasury Note of 1856 is one of the foundational objects in the monetary history of Paraguay and is presented here as the unique known surviving example of this earliest national paper-money issue. Produced under the government of President Carlos Antonio Lopez, it predates the later and more familiar Paraguayan paper issues of the 1860s and belongs to the first attempt by the national Treasury to create a circulating paper instrument for domestic use. Read more →

Australia 1929 - Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited - Circular Letter of Introduction Photographic Proof (Mounted on Cardstock, PCGS 50 About New)

The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited, one of the principal banking institutions in colonial and early Commonwealth Australia, operated within an expanding international financial framework. Documents of this type demonstrate how banks extended their operational reach beyond domestic borders, enabling clients to function within a coordinated global system of credit recognition and identity verification. Read more →

1875 - 5 Shillings Victoria Consular Revenue Tied Diplomatic Document (British Consulate, Alexandria)

High-value British consular certificate issued at Her Britannic Majesty’s Consulate in Alexandria on 9 September 1875, bearing the scarce 5 Shillings Queen Victoria Consular Service revenue stamp. The document certifies a civil status event and is fully executed with period manuscript, the embossed consular arms, and the oval BRITISH CONSULATE ALEXANDRIA datestamp tying the fiscal adhesive to the sheet. Read more →

Egypt 1930 - Greece Ministry of Foreign Affairs Handwritten Arabic Consular Testimonial (Cairo Consulate)

The document carries a full, sharply struck royal Greek consular seal in red, displaying the crowned cross-and-shield emblem of the Kingdom of Greece surrounded by the bilingual Greek–French inscription identifying the Cairo consulate. The seal overlaps the manuscript lines, confirming in-period issuance. Two large fountain-pen signatures of Greek consular officers appear beneath the text, including the acting official who authenticated the testimonial. Read more →