Auction: 12028 - The Collector's Series sale (Hong Kong)
Lot: 127
The Oriental Bank, uniface proof $100 of the obverse, Hong Kong Branch, Victoria, 18- (c1845-1846), black and white printed on card paper, measured 112 x 200mm, arms top center flanked by a seated lion and a unicorn, bank name in Chinese oriental style left and right, value in top left and right in English, in Chinese at bottom, an early engraving by Batho & Bingley, first issue and the first print of the first banknot issued in Hong Kong, very attractive and excessively rare, a unique specimen of the denomination Estimate HK$ 150,000-200,000
Sold for
HK$200,000