Ended on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 2:30 AM.

Turkey / Türkei: Rare Specimen banknote of 1000 Livres ND(1918) AH1334, VA-8-1, with arabic specimen

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Start of the sale:
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 4:08 AM
Item n°704394085
Sale ends:
Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 2:30 AM
Lot:
#02480
Catalog:
43rd Christoph Gärtner Auction - February 7th, 2019 - Banknotes

Rare Specimen banknote of 1000 Livres ND(1918) AH1334, VA-8-1, with arabic specimen perforation and with zero serial numbers, light stain in paper, bright original colors, condition: PCGS 55 aUNC, spotted paper. This note is part of a collection from 1918 found in private hands around 2016 in Australia. The collection was found in an original album of that time with the title "The collection specimen notes of all notes of the State Ministry of Finance", probably in posession of Huseyin Cahid, the Vice-President of the Ottoman Parliament at that time. According to the list included in the album the following numbers of notes were printed of these types: 50,000 livres – 40; 1,000 livres – 5,210; 500 livres – 25,670; 100 livres – 243,250; 50 livres – 362,100; 25 livres – 728,200; 10 livres – 2,024,675; 5 livres – 5,347,000; 2-1/2 livres – 4,036,000; 1 livre – 46,050,000; 1/2 livre – 28,492,400; 1/4 livre – 9,970,000; 20 piastres – 21,875,000; 5 piastres – 73,400,000. This finding marks one of the most important ones in the banknote collectors market.
Value Add Taxes (19%) will be added to the hammer price and the buyers premium.

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Turkey / Türkei: Rare Specimen banknote of 1000 Livres ND(1918) AH1334, VA-8-1, with arabic specimen

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