LONDON.- International Coin and Banknote Auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb announced that leading Banknote expert Barnaby Faull will be joining the Mayfair saleroom from Friday, April 1, 2022 as Senior Specialist.

Barnaby Faull said “I am delighted to be able to come out of what has proved to be a very short retirement to join the Banknote Department at Dix Noonan Webb, where I will be working alongside an already established team of experts, all of whom I have known for many years. I am very much looking forward to doing all that I can to accelerate the momentum that they have achieved and to reconnect with the many friends that I have made over the years in the banknote world.”

Pierce Noonan, CEO of Dix Noonan Webb said: “The appointment of Barnaby is a major new signing for us and we are delighted to be welcoming him to the DNW team. Barnaby has been at the forefront of the commercial sale of banknotes for decades and brings with him an unparalleled wealth of experience in this increasingly popular field. The arrival of Barnaby creates for us a dream team of banknote experts, where he joins Thomasina Smith, Andrew Pattison and Michael O’Grady, all of whom he has worked with previously.”

Barnaby started his long career at Spink in the early 1970s and only retired in early 2022, having spent nearly half a century there. He began coin collecting at an early age and following a stint of holiday work at Spink joined this company full-time in the early 1970s at the age of 20. Twenty years later a vacancy opened up in the fledgling banknote department and Barnaby was given the post. At the time of his appointment banknotes were still a niche market and very much in the shadow of the far more illustrious coin and stamp fields but over the next 30 years Barnaby oversaw a sea-change in the banknote market. He was responsible for introducing some of the first dedicated banknote auctions in the world and soon became the leading player in this fast growing market. During his time working with banknotes, Barnaby has handled the sale of many of the world’s most important private collections, in addition to those of many major Bank and institutional holdings.