Auction Catalogue

4 October 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British, Scottish and World Paper Money

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 3813

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4 October 2007

Hammer Price:
£1,000

Government, Treasury Bill for Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, 12 October 1917, no. 05, unissued, payable in London at Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co Ltd. About extremely fine (£1,000-1,500)

The new revolutionary government canvassed for loans in several European countries but also came back to London to raise money with their first bills dated October 1917