LONDON.- A fascinating collection of banknotes with errors sold for £8,450 in International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb’s live /online auction of British, Irish and World Banknotes on Wednesday, June 24, 2020.

The 36 lots of Banknotes auction dating from the 1950s to the 1980s had either part of the Queen’s face missing, folds, mismatched serial numbers, missing serial numbers or ink errors fetched £7,526. The most expensive example was two miscut £20 notes from 1999 which fetched £1,054 – double its estimate [lot 32].




The second part of the Yves Cataroche Collection of Guernsey attracted as much interest as the first, with a fine example of a £1 dated 1924 selling for an impressive £5,208, against an estimate of £1,000- 1,500 [lot 305], while the cancelled £1,000,000 Treasury Bill, sold for £5,456 [lot 63].

The second part of the Charity Sale from the Archive of the AIB (formerly the First Trust Bank). This sizeable group of Irish material raised £38,083 for the banks chosen charities: AgeNI and Alzheimers Society bringing the combined total to an impressive £68,669. The highest price was paid for three uncut sheets of twenty four £100 proofs which sold for £2,480 [lot 421]. The final part will be sold in the October Sale.

Other strong areas from the World Banknote section were notes from British East Africa, Russia and German East Africa.

The next banknote auction will be held on Wednesday, October 28.