2009年12月16日星期三

RM Smythe & Co, Inc - Smythe March 20th U.S. & World cardboard money arrangement to affection the alone accepted examples of Siam banknotes

Store this angel in big sizeManhattan, New York - March 13, 2008 - The R. M. Smythe & Company bounce cardboard money arrangement on March 20th 2008 will action 890 lots of cardboard money at their Manhattan office. One of the added absorbing lots of apple banknotes will be the specimens of Siam banknotes, in accurate the 20, 80, and 100 Tical denominations, are believed to be the alone examples apperceive to exist. They already resided in a Paris museum, were purchased by a banker 15 years ago for $90,000, and afresh were endemic by the President of the Thailand Numismatic Association.

The bounce auction will aswell cover a advanced alternative of U.S. and World Notes, including; U.S. Large & Small size, 50's and 100's FRN's Small Size Collection, U.S. Small Size Errors, U.S. Fractional Currency, National Banknotes, Colonial Currency, Historic Documents, Confederate Currency and Bonds, Obsolete Currency, Obsolete Sheets and assorted actual items. Some of the added noteworthy lots include:

Lot # 234 - Banque de l'Indo-Chine. [Estimate $100,000 to $125,000] Decree of 21.1.1875 and 20.2.1888. Bangkok. 1) 19.12.1898. 5 Ticals. P-S101. Specimen. Emerald blooming with printed date. Vignette on larboard depicting oriental woman captivation bamboo shoot built-in below "France" captivation caduceus. Bank of France appearance of numeration with consecutive amount 000 and block amount 0.0. Value in English and French. Faux amethyst watermark of woman. Two engraved signatures. Text in Chinese and Siamese overprinted in atramentous on back. Impeccable condition. Uncirculated. 2) 5 Ticals. Specimen. Similar to aboriginal case but after date, aught numerals or faux watermark on front. Only one engraved signature. Overprint of Chinese and Siamese argument absent from back, but Chinese argument in the centermost is printed in emeral blooming with the blow of the back. Uncirculated. 3) 6.12.1898. 20 Ticals. P-S102. Brown with collapsed Neptune captivation trident at left. Back has atramentous overprint in Chinese and Siamese. Zero numerals overprinted on foreground in atramentous alternating with the amethyst faux watermark. Two engraved signatures. Space larboard bare for handwritten or added signature for Le Caissierde l'Agence. Uncirculated. 4) 7.11.1898. 80 Ticals. P-S103. Light abject with two elephants at larboard and appropriate pillars, two collapsed women with a tiger and a baptize addle at lower center. Overprinting agnate to that on the 20 Tical note, and signature block of Caissier de l'Agence larboard blank. Uncirculated. 5) 31.2.1898. 100 Ticals. P-S104. Red with Vasco de Gama at larboard and Polynesian man with paddle aloft dragon baiter at right. Sailing ships at lower center. Overprintings agnate to those in the antecedent three lots and signature across of Caissier de l'Agence larboard blank. Uncirculated. [5]
With the approval of the Ministry of the Colonies, the Bank of Indochina opened a annex case in Bangkok on 22 February 1897. The press of banknotes for use use in Siam was aboriginal advised on April 27, 1897, and a alternation of four ethics (5, 20, 80 and 100 Ticals) adopted the architecture of the aboriginal alternation of addendum issued for Indochine but with texts and colors modified. Each amount has a altered design, and there are assorted dates.

Lot # 235 - Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. 18xx. 400 Ticals. [Estimate $15,000 to $20,000] P-S127r2. Salmon and blooming foreground with Chinese and Siamese argument overprinted in black. Royal accoutrements at top center. Red-orange aback with Siamese argument overprinted in black. Two vertical "CANCELLED" perforations. Date of Dec 1895 handwritten in atramentous ink in the high appropriate margin. Highest church appear in the accepted catalog. Extremely rare. Has a bend tip bend and some ablaze cement balance alternating a allowance in the back. Choice AU.

Lot # 247 - Thomas De La Rue. [Estimate $20,000 to $25,000] Presentation album with foreground and aback architecture proofs for an unissued 1000 Baht note. The amethyst on checkered foreground has a account of King Rama IX at the larboard in Field Marshall's compatible that carefully resembles the account on the 1 Baht agenda of the 1953-56ND issue. The aback in the appropriate recessed console has a axial vignette assuming activities surrounding the above bounded articles of Thailand: rubber, lumber, fish, and rice. There abide proofs of unadopted lower church addendum whose backs anniversary alone characterize one of these activities. Uncirculated.

This album was already endemic by the President of the Currency Board and is believed to be unique. There is accessory bend abrasion on the red album, and some accessory foxing on the close boards, but the essai proofs themselves are ablaze and botheration free.

Lot # 298 - $10. Fr.95B.1863. No.5317. Choice Uncirculated. [Estimate $12,500 to $15,000] A beautiful, beginning agenda with aberrant colors and cardboard quality. The alone artifice would be a tiny bend tip bend in the high appropriate that extends alone 1mm into the note. Centered altogether on the aback and confused hardly appropriate on the front. Opportunities to access this blazon in actual top brand are acceptable few and far between.

Lot # 523 - California Ch.12454. Los Angeles. Pacific NB. $50. Fr.685. [Estimate $8500 to $9500] 1902 PB. No.7 B. 63 Choice Uncirculated. One of the 15 single-digit $50 1902PBs recorded in T&P which all brand about the aforementioned as this piece. They are actual quick sellers, and accumulation never keeps up with demand. Great embossing and boldness can be audibly apparent through the PMG 63 EPQ holder.

Lot # 296 - $5. Fr.70. 1880. No.Z357532. Gem Uncirculated. [Estimate $8000 to $10,000] One of the finest accepted ample amber allowance Fr-70 Legals. The embossing and all-embracing boldness are acutely discernable through the CGC Gem65 holder. The PMG citizenry address shows two 65s and one 66. A PMG63 awash endure year for $9200. This adorableness should back at atomic that amount.

Lot # 596 - Continental Currency Counterfeit Detector. Act of September 26, 1778. Pane of $5-$7-$8-$20-$40-$50-$60. [Estimate $4000 to $8000] Blue paper. Counterfeit detectors were printed application the absolute plates and broadcast to banks and merchants to anticipate fraud. The abject blush was advised to stop the addendum from accepting abounding in and circulated. Extremely attenuate in area form. Three baby bend breach on the larboard margin, contrarily Uncirculated.

Lot # 301 - $100. Fr.204. 1863. EF-AU. [Estimate $6000 to $8000] Lovely antipode affidavit of the $100 Two-year Interest Bearing Note with three coupons attached. Printed on abundant paper. Plate letter A. Dated December 1, 1963. Three baby aperture cancellations through anniversary signature on the note, and two anniversary through Chittenden's individual signature on the coupons. The cardboard has all aciculate corners with two vertical folds, one through the centermost and one alternating the apprenticed with the coupons. Only two issued examples are known, and admitting not about as rare, proofs are actual scarce.. The bowl letter D affidavit in VF action awash beforehand this year for $6900.

"Our March 20th auction is traveling to accept several actual attenuate items, but the majority of the lots offered will be aberrant above banknotes with pre-auction estimates that put them able-bodied aural ambit of the boilerplate collector." said Mary Herzog, Vice President of R.M. Smythe & Company. "The above of the World Banknotes we are alms at this auction is acutely high. Collectors of these addendum will accept an amazing befalling to acquirement some absolutely admirable examples."

Lots will be accessible for examination at Smythe’s offices at 2 Rector Street, in New York City, by adjustment only. To align for an adjustment alarm R. M.Smythe & Co. at 800-622-1880. For updates on this arrangement analysis Smythe’s website at smytheonline.com. This arrangement will aswell be conducted with eBay Live/LiveAuctioneers. A complete archive of all 890 lots including photos and estimates can be beheld online at: static.smytheonline.com/ . Select "Current Auctions" in the larboard column.

Accredited media absorbed in scheduling an account to altercate this absolution or accomplished & accessible auctions are encouraged to acquaintance Mary Herzog at 212-943-1880. High resolution photos are aswell accessible aloft request.

Mary Herzog
212-943-1880
RM Smythe & Co, Inc
2 Rector Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10006-1844

Fax: 212.312.6370

About R. M. Smythe & Co.
R. M. Smythe and Co., accustomed in 1880, buys, sells, and auctions coins, cardboard money, stocks and bonds and autographs at their accumulated address at 2 Rector Street in the affection of the Financial District in New York City. To adjustment a catalog, to acquaintance any of the firm’s specialists, or to accomplish accepted inquiries, alarm 212-943-1880 or 800-622-1880, or appointment the firm’s website at: www.smytheonline.com.

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