Ended on Wednesday, 5 June 2019 at 02:30.

Turkey / Türkei: Rare Specimen banknote of 5 Livres ND(1916-17) AH1332, RS-4-7-1, with arablic speci

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Start of the sale:
Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 12:45
Item n°768724079
Sale ends:
Wednesday, 5 June 2019 at 02:30
Lot:
#02882
Catalogue:
44. Christoph Gärtner Auktion - 5. June 2019 - Banknotes Worldwide

Rare Specimen banknote of 5 Livres ND(1916-17) AH1332, RS-4-7-1, with arablic specimen perforation and zero serial numbers, ligh stains at borders, bright original colors, condition: PCGS graded 62 UNC. 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.
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Christoph Gärtner made his hobby into his profession. He started in 1984 and within two decades the Gärtner GmbH developed into a world leading mail order house for postal stationery and became a specialist for thematics and postal history.
In april 2005 the idea to build a place where collectors, customers and investors from all over the world could meet, was realized.
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Turkey / Türkei: Rare Specimen banknote of 5 Livres ND(1916-17) AH1332, RS-4-7-1, with arablic speci

Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG