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Survey of rare dates

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 19:27
by Mac
Rare notes survey report thread.

Dates and pics of notes of the following years are sought.
Results of surveys will also be posted here.

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Currency Commission Ten shillings, 1929.

10 Shilling notes, 31.12.29, 15.5.45

£10, 1933

£20, 1943, 1944, 1945

£50, 1943

£100, 1943

Comments welcome, and also reports of notes seen.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 08 May 2015 23:26
by DOC
Here is a £100 Lavery note from 1943.

Re: Survey of rare dates 1943 £100

Posted: 12 May 2015 22:40
by DOC
And now with scan attached :). Did not upload originally as £ was in the file name.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 15 May 2015 01:13
by Mac
That's quite a nice example.
1943 is a very tough year for the £20, £50, and £100 notes.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 22:53
by Mac
A small group of 1943 £50 notes has turned up!
All of the notes are circulated, some of then being in quite low grade. The group covers all of the dates, and thus fills in an important gap in the census.

Lavery 50 Pounds 1943
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Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 16:50
by DOC
Here are images of two scarce £5 notes missing from the Irishpapermoney gallery. This leaves only 3 dates still to be accounted for to complete the entire set !

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 05 Sep 2020 18:43
by Mac
@DOC
Thanks for those. I will add them in.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 01 May 2022 11:46
by DOC
Irish Free State £100 notes issued in 1937 are rare and seldom seen in nice grade. This one appeared recently for auction at Stack’s Bowers and is one of the nicest examples known.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 11 May 2022 19:37
by Mac
A very nice note to see turning up. This example is new to the census. One other nice example, in similar grade was sold in Sotheby's in 1995.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 15 Aug 2022 01:53
by ThePloughman
A superb example of a 100 Pound that usually turns up in low grade. The 1928 appears to be much more common than 1937 in GVF or better grade.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 28 Jun 2023 15:40
by callahiljo
Not a mega-rarity but a nice example of the first postwar £5 note and a split prefix. Do we know where the split occurs? In PMI we have it between 78T 054873 (on 14.7.44) and 78T 078711 on 17.1.45.

Just sold in Heritage for USD252 including fees.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 30 Jun 2023 13:44
by Mac
callahiljo wrote: 28 Jun 2023 15:40Do we know where the split occurs?
Yes.
From the Central Bank Archive, we know the last number for 14.7.44 - it is 78T 056000.
So 17.1.45 would start from 78T 056001.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 19 Sep 2023 12:40
by callahiljo
The first sighting of a £50 dated 26.2.46 as far as I know.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 20 Sep 2023 22:38
by Mac
Certainly the first example of the date I have seen!
Many thanks for that addition to the recorded dates.

Re: Survey of rare dates

Posted: 10 Oct 2023 14:06
by Mac
This £50 note 26.2.46 was recently in a Lyn Knight auction in the US, graded at VF20 by Legacy (very much gilding the lily there, I think, looks more like a Fine range) – it appears to have sold for $400.