Stack's Bowers Galleries

Spring 2023 Auction  –  20 - 25 March 2023

Stack's Bowers Galleries, Spring 2023 Auction

Live Sessions: U.S. Coins and Currency

Part 1: Mo, 20.03.2023, from 6:00 PM CET
Part 2: Tu, 21.03.2023, from 4:00 PM CET
Part 3: Tu, 21.03.2023, from 11:00 PM CET
Part 4: We, 22.03.2023, from 4:00 PM CET
Part 5: We, 22.03.2023, from 9:00 PM CET
Part 6: Th, 23.03.2023, from 5:00 PM CET
Part 7: Th, 23.03.2023, from 7:00 PM CET
Part 8: Fr, 24.03.2023, from 5:00 PM CET
Part 9: Fr, 24.03.2023, from 10:00 PM CET
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Description

France / Louisiana. Banque Royale. January 1, 1720 10 Livres. Pick A16b. PCGS Banknote Very Fine 30 Details.
#1590552. Printed signatures of Giraudeau, Delanauze, and Granet. "Repaired edge tears" noted, with a strip of paper backing the right margin. Vertical folds but nice paper and eye appeal, good embossing on the seal, twin ink stains (from when the note was folded in two) near center. A desirable example of this John Law related currency, backed by land in Nouvelle France.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Charles Hamilton Gallery's Auction 15, April 1966, part of lot 136; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part VIII, January 2005, lot 1671; Jeff Rock, September 2006.

Estimate: $375

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Price realized 700 USD
Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 375 USD
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