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Australia 1880–1910 - Commercial Bank of Australia £100 Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

Pick Unlisted and absent from major catalogues, this note represents the intersection of rarity, artistry, cultural history, and financial significance. As a design artifact, a Chinese-Australian commercial document, a surviving record of deliberate 19th-century financial localization, and a financial relic from the end of Australia’s private-banknote era, this piece is an educational cornerstone for advanced Commonwealth collections and a critical reference in the study of pre-federation monetary history. Read more →

Australia 1877 - City of Melbourne Bank Limited £20 Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

This specimen preserves the full engraved layout exactly as produced, without circulation wear, providing an intact reference for typography, guilloché geometry, and denomination treatment that is otherwise lost to history. Its survival illustrates the hybrid production model of the era, in which London engravers supplied master plates while colonial banks adopted imagery reflecting local identity and economic ambition. Read more →

Australia 1877 - Bradbury, Wilkinson and Company Portrait of Woman for City of Melbourne Bank Limited 20 Pounds Design Intaglio Vignette (Pick Unlisted)

The lower margin carries the Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. London imprint together with the number 40. Preserved independently from borders, denomination devices, issuer lettering and other elements of the completed note, the vignette allows the engraved portrait to be examined as an individual production component. Read more →

New Zealand 1896 - Bank of Australasia £50 Christchurch Proof (Pick Unlisted)

The Bank of Australasia, incorporated by Royal Charter in 1835, operated as one of the dominant British joint stock banks across Australia and New Zealand. By the 1890s, its New Zealand branches played a central role in commercial finance, agricultural settlement, and large scale mercantile transactions. The Christchurch office served as a major regional hub, making the Fifty Pounds denomination a practical upper tier instrument for institutional and wholesale banking use. Read more →

Australia 1835-1850 - Bank of Australasia £10 Melbourne Proof (Pick Unlisted)

This example serves as a primary documentary artifact of early Australian banking practice, British export engraving, and the institutional mechanics behind the first generation of colonial banknotes. Read more →

Brazil 1773 - Diamond Administration of Tejuco, 6 Octavas Gold Receipt No. 813 (Pick Unlisted)

The form records the release of “seis outavas de ouro” (six octavas of gold), a denomination tied directly to Portuguese metrological standards of the 18th century. Every transaction in the diamond zone was logged under strict royal oversight, and very few printed instruments survived the destruction protocols imposed during later 18th- and early 19th-century reforms. The vast majority of known diamond-district documents are purely handwritten; printed forms of this type are exponentially rarer. Read more →

Australia 1877 - Mercantile Bank of Sydney £1 Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

As the only confirmed specimen of this design and now graded at the highest possible level (PMG 66 EPQ Pop 1), this note serves as the definitive reference for the Mercantile Bank of Sydney’s unlisted £1 issue. Its rarity is absolute: a single recorded survivor, establishing an R9 classification under documented-population criteria. It stands among the most important early Australian private-bank specimens preserved in private hands. Read more →

Australia 1879–1903 - Federal Bank of Australia, Limited £1 Sydney Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

Following the 1893 collapse, the Federal Bank of Australia ceased to exist as an issuing institution and its notes were removed from circulation. No confirmed issued examples are known to survive, leaving specimen material as the only physical evidence of the bank’s currency. Read more →

Poland 1994 - 50 Zlotych Discovery AR Prefix Without Overprints Approval Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

The face preserves the complete 50 Zlotych design prepared for the National Bank of Poland, with the portrait of King Casimir III the Great, the Polish eagle, the denomination PIĘĆDZIESIĄT ZŁOTYCH, the large 50 value device at left, the National Bank of Poland title, and the Warsaw date of 25 March 1994. The printed signatures are those of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, President of the National Bank of Poland, and Wieslaw Biernatowicz, Chief Treasurer. Read more →

Poland 1994 - 50 Zlotych Discovery AR Prefix with Red Overprint and Oval Stamp Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

Produced by Thomas De La Rue in London for the National Bank of Poland, the note uses Andrzej Heidrich's final 1994 design with layered guilloche fields, Gothic ornamental structure, detailed value panels, and the King Casimir III the Great watermark. Read more →

Poland 1994 - 50 Zlotych Discovery AR Prefix Perforated SPECIMEN OF NO VALUE Specimen (Pick Unlisted)

Produced by Thomas De La Rue in London for the National Bank of Poland, the note carries Andrzej Heidrich's completed 1994 design with layered guilloche work, detailed denomination panels, ornamental security structures, and the King Casimir III the Great watermark in the left field. Read more →

Sweden 1785 - Stockholm Spinnhus Pollett System – Complete Nine-Denomination Institutional Currency Set:One Half Öre to One Daler (Pick Unlisted)

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