Bank of Lithuania, 500 litu, 11 December 1924, red serial number B065667, dark brown and multicoloured, value at left and right, reverse blue and multicoloured, arms top centre, value at left and right (Pick 21a), central crease otherwise a strong very fine, rare £600-700
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Bank of Lithuania, a specimen 500 litu on an issued, 11 December 1924, red serial number A023046, dark brown and multicoloured, value at left and right, reverse blue and multicoloured, arms top centre, value at left and right (Pick 21s1), perforated PAVYZDYS, uncirculated, attractive and rare £350-400
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Bank of Lithuania, 10 litu, 24 November 1927, serial number A900046, green and orange, arms top centre, value at left and right, reverse green, farmers sowing, value at left and right (Pick 23a), good very fine £80-100
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Bank of Lithuania, specimen 10 litu, 24 November 1927, serial number A000.000, green and orange, arms top centre, value at left and right, reverse green, farmers sowing, value at left and right (Pick 23s), perforated, red PAVYZDYS overprint, uncirculated, rare £120-140
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Bank of Lithuania, 10 litu, 24 November 1927, serial number E000000, green and orange, arms top centre, value at left and right, reverse green, farmers sowing, value at left and right (Pick 23s), red PAVYZDYS overprint, uncirculated, rare £120-160
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Bank of Lithuania, 50 litu, 1928, serial number A 961363, blue, orange-green and pink, Doctor Jonas Basanavicius at left, value at centre, value at left and right (Pick 24a), good very fine £100-120
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Bank of Lithuania, 50 litu, 1928, serial number B 261940, blue, orange-green and pink, Doctor Jonas Basanavicius at left, value at centre, value at left and right (Pick 24a), toning top left, almost extremely fine £120-140
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Bank of Lithuania, specimen 50 litu, 1928, no serial numbers, blue, orange-green and pink, Doctor Jonas Basanavicius at left, value at centre, value at left and right (Pick 24s), red BRADBURY seal low centre, perforated, uncirculated, rare £120-160
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Bank of Lithuania, 100 litu, 1928, serial number A 796620, purple and multicoloured, woman with cornucopia (Abundance) at left, boy with allegorical symbols of trade, agriculture and the Arts low centre, value at centre and at right, reverse purple, building (Pick 25a), good very fine, scarce £100-120
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Bank of Lithuania, specimen 100 litu, 1928, no serial numbers, purple and multicoloured, woman with cornucopia (Abundance) at left, boy with allegorical symbols of trade, agriculture and the Arts low centre, value at centre and at right, reverse purple, building (Pick 25s), red BRADBURY seal at centre, perforated uncirculated, rare £180-240
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Bank of Lithuania, 5 litai, 1929, serial number C 816712, purple-brown and multicoloured, Grand Duke Vytautas at left, arms at right, reverse brown, knights at centre, value at left and right (Pick 26a), almost very fine £80-100
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Bank of Lithuania, 5 litai, 1929, serial number C 998820, purple-brown and multicoloured, Grand Duke Vytautas at left, arms at right, reverse brown, knights at centre, value at left and right (Pick 26a), almost very fine £80-100
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Bank of Lithuania, 5 litai, 1929, serial number D 569628, purple-brown and multicoloured, Grand Duke Vytautas at left, arms at right, reverse brown, knights at centre, value at left and right (Pick 26a), uncirculated thus scarce £200-250
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Bank of Lithuania, an obverse and reverse uniface die proof for a 5 litai, 1929, purple-brown and white, Grand Duke Vytautas at left, arms at right, reverse knights (Pick 26 for type), ink date 'Sep 18th 29' in top margin, good extremely fine and very rare, unusual £150-250
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Bank of Lithuania, 20 litu, 1930, serial number A 866235, purple-brown, green, orange and blue, Grand Duke Vytautas at left, arms at right, Vytautas church at centre, reverse brown and pale blue, statue of woman at left, ship low centre (Pick 27a), good very fine, scarce £100-140
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Bank of Lithuania, 20 litu, 1930, serial number C 355736, purple-brown, green, orange and blue, Grand Duke Vytautas at left, arms at right, Vytautas church at centre, reverse brown and pale blue, statue of woman at left, ship low centre (Pick 27a), good very fine, scarce £100-140
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Bank of Lithuania, currency notes, 1st issue, 1 centas, 5 centai, 20 centu and 50 centu, 1922 (Pick 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a), first two almost extremely fine, last two very good to fine, scarce (4) £150-200
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Bank of Lithuania, currency notes, 1st issue, 1 centas, blue, and 5 centai, green, 1922 (Pick 1a, 2a), very fine and extremely fine, scarce (2) £100-120
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Bank of Lithuania, currency notes, 1st issue, 1 centas, blue, and 5 centai, green, 1922 (Pick 1a, 2a), extremely fine (2) £120-140
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Bank of Lithuania, currency notes, 2nd issue, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 centu, 1922 (Pick 7-12), generally fine to very fine (6) £180-220
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Bank of Lithuania, currency notes, 2nd issue, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 centu, 1922 (Pick 7-12), generally fine to extremely fine (6) £250-300
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Bank of Lithuania, currency notes, 2nd issue, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 centu, 1922, and 1 litas, 1922, serial number J 022805, red-brown (Pick 7-11, 13), extremely fine to uncirculated, last note about fine (6) £300-400
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Bank of Lithuania, 10 litu, green, 50 litu, blue, 100 litu, violet and specimen 5 litai, purple-brown, 1929, serial number A000000, Grand Duke Vytautas at left (Pick 23, 24, 25, 26s), about very fine, last note extremely fine, scarce (4) £200-250
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Bank of Lithuania, an obverse and reverse uniface specimen 50 litu, 1928, blue, Doctor Joans Basanavicius at left, also 100 litu, 1928, purple, Maiden, boy and allegorical symbols (Pick 24s, 25), uncirculated, rare, last note about very fine (3) £180-240
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Bank of Lithuania, a selection of the 1991 series, small change notes (18), comprising 10 talonas (3), 20, 50 talonas (3), 1 talonas (2), 3 (2), 5 (2), 10, 25, 50 (2) and 100 talonas, the complete series (Pick 29a, b, c, 30, 31a, b, 33a, b, 34a, b, 35b, 36b, 37a, b, 38b), uncirculated £80-100
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Bank of Lithuania, a selection of the 1991 series, small change notes comprising 10 talonas (2), 20, 50 (2), 1 talonas (2), 3 talonas (2), 5 talonas, 10 talonas, 25 talonas, 50 talonas, 100 talonas (Pick 29a, b, 30, 31a, b, 32a, b, 33b, 34b, 35b, 36b, 37b, 38b), 1, 10, 50, 100 talonas (Pick 39, 40, 41, 42) and 200, 500 talonas, all 1992 (Pick 43, 44), and 200 and 500 talonas, 1993 (Pick 45, 46), uncirculated (22) £100-120
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Bank of Lithuania, 10 litu (2), one with serial number AA 0000109, brown, 20 litu (2), one with serial number AC 0000039, purple and 50 litu (2), one with AB 0000041 (Pick 47a, 48, 49a), uncirculated (6) £180-220
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Bank of Lithuania, a selection comprising 10 litu, 100 litu, 1991 (Pick 47a, 50a), also 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 litu, 1993/1994 (Pick 53a-58a), uncirculated (8) £180-220
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Bank of Lithuania, a selection comprising 100 litu (Pick 50a), also 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 litu, 1993 (Pick 53a-58a), and 10 and 20 litu, 1997 (Pick 59, 60), uncirculated (9) £200-240
Siaule City |
Siaule City Authority, a selection comprising 10, 50 centu, 1, 5, 10 litu, 1989, Siaule Olympic Bank, 10, 50 centu, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 litauru, all 1991, Soviet Ministry of Finance, Vilnius emergency ruble withdrawal notes, 1 rublis, 10 rublis (5), all 1990 and 5 rublis 1991, uncirculated (19) £80-100
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Siaule Olympic Bank, 10, 50 centu, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 litauru, 1991, also UNRAA Team 569 Scheinfeld, Refugee Camp Currency, 10, 50 cents, $1, all 1946, good extremely fine, last good very fine, scarce (10) £200-250
Kowno |
Kowno, 1/2 mark, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 1000 mark, all 1918 (PR 127-132, 133b, 134d), fine to very fine, scarce (8) £250-300
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Kowno Darlehnskassenschein, a lot comprising 1/2 mark, lilac, orange, 1 mark, green, 2 mark, lilac, 5 mark, blue, 20 mark, pink, 50 mark, blue and 100 mark, brown, all April 1918 (PR 127-133), very fine to extremely fine (7) £180-220
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Kowno Darlehnskassenschein, 1000 mark (2), 4 April 1918, red serial number A 162337, A 2683781, green, Mercury and soldier in armour at right, coastline at left, reverse green, allegorical figure with wreath at left, value at right (PR 134a, b), original very fine, handsome, scarce (2) £180-220
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Kowno, 20 mark, pink, 50 mark, violet and green, 100 mark, brown, helmeted man at right, maiden at left, 1000 mark, green, Mercury and soldier in armour at right (PR 131, 132, 133, 134b), generally almost extremely fine (4) £280-340
Posen |
Posen/Poznan, German Occupation, Bank of Trade and Commerce, April 1916, a lot comprising 20 kopek, green, 50 kopek (2), red, 1 rubel (2), blue, 3 rubel, green, 10 rubel, pink, 25 rubel, blue, 100 rubel (2), blue, one 7 digit serial number, one 6 digit (PR 120, 121b, 122b, d, 123b, 124, 125, 126a, b), generally good fine to very fine, quite rare (10) £650-750
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Posen/Poznan, German Occupation, Bank of Trade and Commerce, April 1916, a lot comprising 20 kopek, green, 50 kopek (3), red, 1 ruble, blue, (PR 120, 121b, 121c, d, 122c, 122d), generally good very fine or better (5) £180-220
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Posen/Poznan, 50 kopek, 1 and 3 mark, all 17 April 1916, also Kowno, 1/2 mark, 2 and 5 mark, all 4 April 1918 (PR 121d, 122c, 123b, 127, 129, 130), first fine, balance generally extremely fine, the 2 mark very fine, scarce (6) £250-300
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Posen/Poznan, German Occupation, Bank of Trade and Commerce, April 1916, a lot comprising 3 rubel, green, 10 rubel, pink and green, 25 rubel, blue and lilac, 100 rubel (2), blue, one 7 digit serial number, one 6 digit (PR 123b, 124, 125, 126a, b), one 100 very fine, balance about extremely fine, scarce (6) £600-700
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Posen/Poznan, 1 rubel, 3 rubel, April 1916 (PR 122c, 123b), Kowno, 1/2 mark, 1, 5, 50 mark (PR 127, 128, 130, 132), generally almost uncirculated to uncirculated, scarce (6) £300-350
BARBADOS |
Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), printer's archival specimen colour trial $5, 1 January 1937, serial run D/AL350, 001 to D/AL390, 000, blue, arms at left, reverse arms, letter "B" for Barbados at upper left (PS111a for type) perforated cancelled, annotations in top margin, uncirculated and rare £160-240
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), colour trial $20 (2), ND (1936), no serial numbers, one purple-brown, the other red, both value at left, arms at right, no place name (British Guiana), reverse arms and value (PS 105 for type), ink 'approved 18/12/36', perforated, first good extremely fine, second good extremely fine, very rare (2) £600-800
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), $100, Bridgetown, 1 March 1940, red serial number D006831, green and lilac, arms at right, B in top right corner (PS 113), a presentable and original very fine, rare £600-800
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Government Issue, specimen $1, ND, serial number B/N 300001-B/P 559000, purple, green and pink, George VI at right, arms at left (Pick 2 for type), ink numerals at top, perforated, extremely fine, rare £300-400
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Government Issue, colour trial $1, ND, red, purple and multicoloured, George VI at right, arms at left (Pick 2ct), perforated, red BRADBURY seal at right, good extremely fine, rare £350-400
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Government Issue, $1, 1 June 1943, serial number B/L 181121, purple, green and pink, George VI at right, arms at left (Pick 2b), fresh and original almost uncirculated thus rare in this grade £900-1,000
BELGIAN CONGO |
Banque du Congo Belge, colour trial 5 francs, Kinshasa, 3 April 1924, black and green, maiden, cherubs and beehive at left, star at right, reverse brown, hippo and elephant (Pick 4A for type), perforated, red WATERLOW overprint, uncirculated and rare £300-350
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Banque du Congo Belge, 5 francs, Troisieme Emission (1943), serial number J969461, blue and orange, maiden at left with allegorical symbols, reverse blue, elephant and hippopotamus in vignette at centre, value at left and right, 'DERDE UITGIUFTE - 1943' overprint (Poicl 13Aa), uncirculated £300-350
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Banque du Congo Belge, colour trial 5000 francs, ND (1950), no serial numbers, red-brown and multicoloured, young woman at left, river and canoe on the bank at right, orange star at centre, reverse purple, Watusi in dugout canoe at centre, Bank initials at right (Pick 19A), perforated, small black SPECIMEN overprint, uncirculated and very rare, attractive, Pick plate note £900-1,100
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Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 10 francs (2), 1 May 1955, 1 June 1955, prefixes L, N, blue, grey, pink and pale blue, soldier at left (Pick 30a), about uncirculated to uncirculated (2) £120-140
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