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Auction: 25200 - World, British and Irish Banknotes - e-Auction
Lot: 574

(x) Commercial Bank of Scotland, specimen £1, Edinburgh, 2nd November 1868, blue and white, classical frieze of allegorical figures top centre, value in red engine turned concentric circles at centre, value in blue oval top left and right, black SPECIMEN overprint low right. This note has been sold through Spink's auctions in the past, and before that, the note was in the archives of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland

(PMS CO 36as), previously mounted with staining on reverse, otherwise good extremely fine, an attractive Perkins Bacon and Co. engraving, rare

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£180

Starting price
£180