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Luxembourg 1982 - 20 Francs Specimen Unissued Series (Pick 54As)

Graded PMG 67 Exceptional Paper Quality Superb Gem Uncirculated, this example represents the highest certified level for the type at the time of cataloging. As a fully realized but unissued design, it stands as both a technical endpoint of the development process and a rare artifact of Luxembourg's late twentieth-century monetary planning. Read more →

Luxembourg 1972 - 50 Francs Signature B, Issued Note (Pick 55b)

Issued fifty francs note of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg dated 1972, representing the Signature B configuration as cataloged under Pick 55b. This variant forms the second signature type within the final circulating series and is distinguished by a change in the left-side issuing authority signature while retaining continuity in the right-side ministerial signature. Read more →

Luxembourg 1951 Banque Internationale a Luxembourg 100 Francs Multi-Stage Photographic Proof Assembly (Pick Unlisted)

This photographic proof assembly of the one hundred francs note of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg S.A. represents a rare and highly informative record of sequential banknote design development. Rather than a single uniform proof, the mounted composition combines multiple design states within one archival piece, documenting the progression from early layout study to near-final engraved configuration several years prior to the issued 1956 note. Read more →

Poland 1937 - Free City of Gdańsk Bank of Danzig 20 Gulden Architectural Vignette Bradbury Wilkinson and Company

This vignette survives as a die proof, representing an internal stage of the engraving and approval process rather than a circulating object. Such proofs were retained within the production workflow and rarely preserved outside institutional contexts. Read more →

Paraguay 1907 - Banco de la República 5 Pesos with 1912 Dual-Side State and Treasury Revalidation Overprint (Pick Unlisted, Base Pick 156)

This does not mean that the note was immune from the economic pressure affecting ordinary paper money in Paraguay. Rather, the dual-side overprint shows a more precise and more defensible function. It separated selected, officially reviewed notes from the broader mass of paper obligations and created a stronger chain of public authority. The face overprint asserted state liability under the January 1912 law; the reverse overprint confirmed Treasury review under the May 1912 decree. Together, they created a higher-control instrument than the ordinary single-face overprint issue, cataloged as Pick 127 on the same Pick 156 base type. Read more →

Paraguay 1907 - Banco de la República 5 Pesos with 1912 State Overprint (Pick 127, Base Pick 156)

Compared with the dual-side 5 Pesos revalidation variety, this Pick 127 example represents the first and standard level of official confirmation. The face overprint established the note as part of the January 1912 state emission. The rarer dual-side example added a second reverse validation from the Departamento de Hacienda and Junta Fiscalizadora under the decree of 20 May 1912. This makes the present note essential to the hierarchy: it shows the normal cataloged state-revalidated issue, while the dual-side note shows the additional Treasury-supervised fiscal layer. Read more →

Paraguay 1907 - Banco de la República 5 Pesos Issued Note (Pick 156)

This note is the foundation of the entire 5 Pesos 1907 to 1912 revalidation group. The cataloged 1912 state overprint issue, Pick 127, was created directly by applying the January 1912 state-emission overprint to this Pick 156 base design. The rarer dual-side state and Treasury revalidation variety also uses this same Pick 156 foundation, but adds both the face state overprint and the reverse “Departamento de Hacienda – Junta Fiscalizadora” validation under the decree of 20 May 1912. This issued Pick 156 therefore stands as the clean reference point for the whole administrative ladder: original bank obligation, state-revalidated issue, and Treasury-fiscalized issue. Read more →

Barbados 1968 - Bank of Barbados 5 Dollars Prefix AA Front and Back Archival Photograph (Pick Unlisted)

Archival photographic records such as these were typically produced in very limited quantities for internal printer archives, approval review, administrative reference, or presentation purposes. Material tied to abandoned or revised concepts had little institutional reason to survive once projects changed direction, making surviving examples substantially rarer than standard specimen or proof material associated with approved banknote issues. Read more →

China 1949 - People's Bank of China 100 Yuan Red Ship Unnumbered Multi-Layer Alignment Trial with Inverted 1948 100 Yuan Underprint (Pick Unlisted)

Material of this kind was created for setup, alignment, or other pressroom work rather than circulation and would ordinarily have been destroyed before release. Its survival provides a rare record of how earlier printed material was reused during production of the 1949 Red Ship issue. Read more →

Poland 1994 - 50 Zlotych Rare London Print C-Prefix Note, CH9769411, Milczak 198A

The design depicts King Kazimierz III Wielki and combines historical portraiture with the security-printing language of the first modern zloty series, including dense guilloche work, microtext, ornamental denomination panels, and a portrait watermark. Introduced following the redenomination of 1 January 1995 at a rate of 10,000 old zlotych to 1 new zloty, the series established the visual identity of modern Polish currency. Read more →

Ireland - Northern 1929 - Ulster Bank Limited 1 Pound Uncut Sheet of 3 Proofs with Specimen Perforation (Pick Unlisted)

Ulster Bank Limited belonged to the private banknote tradition of Ireland and Northern Ireland, where commercial banks continued to issue their own notes under regulated authority. As an uncut sheet of 3 proofs on Ulster Bank Limited watermarked security paper, this object stands as a rare and unusually complete survivor of the Pick 306p design family and supports its classification as an R9 Extremely Rare proof artifact. Read more →

Ireland - Northern 1929 - Ulster Bank Limited 1 Pound Proof with Specimen Perforation (Pick 306p)

PMG identifies the piece as a proof, graded PMG 55 EPQ About Uncirculated, with specimen perforation and selvage included. The retained selvage gives the proof a sheet-context that is rarely preserved on a single note, while the specimen perforation marks the piece as controlled production material. These features keep the object close to the production and approval process rather than reducing it to a separated printed design. Read more →