Important Collection of Irish Paper Money formed by Bob Blake (Part I)

One Guinea, 1 February 1805, contemporary forgery, stamped FORGERY across front (Pick –). Holes and damage but design intact, poor to good (£150-200)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bob Blake Collection of Irish Banknotes.

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Scarcely any early notes from the bank exist; in many cases only forgeries seem to have survived