An exceptionally rare £5 banknote, printed in 1900, is expected to fetch up to £16,000 when auctioned at Noonans’ auction house in Mayfair on 12 October.
An exceptionally rare £5 banknote, printed in 1900, is expected to fetch up to £16,000 when auctioned at Noonans’ auction house in Mayfair on 12 October.
Jim Bridgman’s “A Look Back” column every Saturday features entries that were in the Gazette “200 Years Ago.” Usually, it is culled from the classified ads and shows how different life was then. The Jan. 29 selection was no exception. We learn that.