Australia’s first banknote going under hammer

SYDNEY, Mar 12 – The only known specimen of the first official banknote issued in Australia, uncovered in Scotland, is expected to fetch at least Aus$250,000 (US$224,000) at an auction in Sydney this month, officials said Wednesday. The ten shilling note, issued on the order of New South Wales governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1817 by […]



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