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£1, PAGE, “HT25”, B322.  Careful reading required!  Top number starts “59…..” whilst the bottom number start “49…..”.  ERROR NOTE WITH MISMATCHED NUMBERS and a difficult one to spot.  UNC...£65


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£1, PAGE, “W57M”, B321.  REPLACEMENT NOTE.  If the error above had been spotted by the Bank this would have replaced the error.  aUNC…£20


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£1, PEPPIATT, “Z70D”, B249.  During WW2 Bank changed the colour of the £1 from the usual green to blue/brown.  For the technically minded this Prefix is last of a sub series. 

These are genuinely UNCIRCULATED….£35

 


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£1, Peppiatt, “D68B”, B260.  After WW2 Bank reverted to their standard green colour.  These have a metallic thread and were only issued 1948-49.

  These are genuinely UNCIRCULATED…£25

 


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£1, SOMERSET, “DY21”, B341.  Last issue of the £1 was in 1981.  Highest number £1 note was “DY21 999997” – in the Bank of England museum.  These “DY21” prefixes are therefore the very last of the last and as such are always in demand.  UNC………£34


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£1, PAGE, “07H” + “08H” + “09H”. B339  Three notes with consecutive Prefixes but with the SAME SERIAL NUMBER “210785”.  These notes are exactly one million notes apart so you need £3 million to find three like this.  These were painstakingly collected at the time of issue.  Impossible to replicate now.  UNC set of 3 notes……….£45


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10/-, FFORDE, “COIN”, B310.  For the Prefix to spell out the word “COIN” is just one of those coincidences which amuse us all.  UNC…………..£15


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£5, SOMERSET, “DU72”, B343a.  Have another look!  Mr Somerset appears to have forgotten to sign this one!  A very strange and no doubt embarrassing ERROR NOTE WITH SIGNATURE MISSING.   UNC…£135


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