GB and World in an album with GB over £70 face including Lion and Key O'Brien £5, Peppiatt Blue and Mauve shades, the world back to Hong KongGeorge VI mixed mostly circulated grades
GB and World Bank of EnglandTwenty Pounds William Shakespeare (5) Page 1970 B328 and Somerset (4) 1981 B350 VF-EF, One Pounds Somerset (5) EF-Unc along with two low grade 10/- O'Brien and Fforde, Scotland a variety of issuers in mixed grades poor - AU some from the 1940s One Pounds (20), Five Pounds (8). Jersey One Pound QEII VF and two B of E damaged notes Fforde £1 and 10/-
GB and World (73) includes GB Bank of EnglandOne Pound (5) Page (1) and Somerset (4) and Ten Shillings (7) O'Brien (1), Fforde (6), in mixed grades some consecutives and EF, World issues 1914 to 1980s issues, comprising Germany (includes some Notgeld), Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Austria, Mexico, Spain, Greece and more, in mixed grades, along with a cheque Messrs Smith, Payne & Smiths for £10 16s. dated 4 June 1831. VG. The cheque bearing the address 1 Lombard Street. The bank was formed in 1758 and in 1902 the five Smith family banks merged to form Union London and Smiths Bank Limited
Great Britain (22) in mixed grades comprising Bank of England issues (17) consisting of O'Brien (5) including 10 Shillings B271 Red-Brown Britannia medallion issue 1955 prefix C56Y and 10 Shillings QE2 portrait & seated Britannia B286 issue 1961 (4) prefixes D93, D59, E66 & first series A05. Fforde (9) 10 Shillings QE2 & seated Britannia 1967 issues (5) including B309 (2) prefixes 79Z & 68Y and B310 prefixes A11N, A30N and B90N along with 5 Pounds QE2 & seated child Britannia B312 issue 1967 (4) including prefixes T66 and a consecutive trio Z06 these about UNC - UNC. Page 1 Pound QE2 & seated Britannia B320 issue 1970 prefix Y39E. Somerset 1 Pounds QE2 pictorial & Sir Isaac NewtonB341 issues 1981 (2) prefixes DW05 & DY12. Along with Scotland 1 Pounds Commemorative issues celebrating 100th Anniversary of Death of Robert Louis StevensonPick 358a (Calloway-Murphy RB94, BY SC835) dated 3rd December 1994 and signed G.R.Mathewson (5) in 2 consecutively numbered runs - a trio RLS0546101 through RLS0546103 and a pair RLS0546049 & RLS0546050, these also UNC.
World (9) in mixed mostly high grades comprising issues from Great Britain (2) Bank of England 10 Shillings O'Brien B287 (Pick 373a, BY BE34b) Replacement issue 1961 serial number M12 391900 and British Armed Forces 6 PencePick M10a ND June 1946 for use by British troops in Germany and Austria, Trieste and Japan. Australia 1 Dollar Pick 42b1 signed Knight & Wheeler security thread in centre serial number CJA 598278. New ZealandReserve Bank5 DollarsPick 177a">Pick 177a ND (1992) serial number CM786731. Spain Banco de Espana1 PesetaPick 144a dated 22nd July 1953. Portugal (4) including 500 Escudos Pick 170a dated 25th January 1966 signed Manuel Jacinto Nunes & António Luís Gomes, 500 Escudos Pick 177 dated 4th October 1979 signed José da Silva Lopes & Alberto Alves de Oliveira Pinto, 1000 Escudos (2) Pick 175a dated 28th May 1968 serial number ARG03036 and Pick 175d dated 21st September 1982 serial number GVN013656 Manuel Jacinto Nunes & Emílio Rui da Veiga Peixoto Vilar and this about UNC - UNC and a much Rarer date
World including Italy 1000 Lire Pick 72c and 500 LiraPick 70d. B of E Five PoundsPeppiatt London 11 July 1945 series J68 045883 B241 and Five Pounds O'Brien London 27th August 1955 series A63A 055255 B276&category=2&prm=sr&searchtype=1">Pick B276. Along with 15 various world notes in mixed grades.
World (32) a group in mixed circulated grades mostly Bank of England issues along with Jersey 1 Pound 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Jersey Pick 25a and RussiaSoviet Union 10 Rubles Pick 240 (15) issued 1991 and Brass 1 Kopek Coins Y# 126a (5) dates include 1976, 1977, 1982 and 1990 (2). Bank of England comprises Five PoundsWhite notes in frames (2) BealeB270 dated 3rd August 1951 series V35 087337 and O'Brien B275 dated 2nd May 1955 series Z61 019938 with rustmarks and inked numbers on reverse. Ten Shillings Beale B266 Red/Brown issue 1950 series T36Z 193642 and One Pounds Beale Green (2) B268 issued 1950 prefixes A86C & W26B. Ten Shillings O'Brien B271 Red/Brown issue 1955 series Y82Y 314529 and One Pound O'Brien Green B273 issue 1955 series B15K 555805. One Pounds Somerset QE2 & Sir Isaac NewtonB341 issued 1981 prefixes DX84, DU60, DT74 and DY13.
GB & World (19), 1 PoundWarren Fisher P/20 Fine+, edge nicks, 10 Shillings Catterns (2) T82 EF but has 2 holes with rust marks, K19 last series VF, 1 Pound O'Brien K94K about VF, 10 Shillings Fforde (9) 8 x consecutive notes generally about EF, IrelandLady Lavery 10 Shillings & 1 Pound these about Fine, plus 4 other world notes
World banknotes (16) includes GB £1s (6) Peppiatt to O'Brien average Fine, better grade modern foreign includes Japan, FrenchPacific Territories, Comoros, Thailand, Netherland Antilles and Guernsey
World and GB (17) includes Britannia type O'Brien £1 (3) GEF, Bank of Scotland consecutive £1 (2) dated 1967 prefix A/X GEF, Scottish private draft note 1826 signed John Rutherford, Wimborne, Poole & Blandford Bank plate pull plus assorted Russia and world
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