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1941 Hay Internment Two Shillings Note

Signatures: Mendel / Stahl

Serial Number: E 40381

Quality Grading: Uncirculated

Provenance:

John Wilson Collection

Lot #2788 (Part), Noble Numismatics Auction 41 (March 1993). Estimate: $4,000, Hammer: $6,000, Nett: $6,000.


Equal to the finest known examples.

Research conducted by Max Bulluss and others has estimated that 2,000 two shilling notes were printed by the "Dunera Boys" interned in Camp Seven in World War II.

As the notes are dated March 1st 1941, it is believed they were used within the confines of Camp 7 from that date. Correspondence from the Commonwealth Treasury reached the Hay Internment Camp in the middle of May 1941, effectively instructing the Camp's officers to"...withdraw and destroy all such notes...".

Of the 2,000 two shilling notes thought to have been printed, only 86 different examples have been seen offered via auction over the past four decades or so.

Just 51 of those two shilling notes show the signatures of Mendel and Stahl, only thirteen of those remain in this superb and unimpaired condition.

Click here to read a background article to the fascinating, historically important and incredibly rare banknotes of the Hay Internment Camp.

SKU: 27964

Browse our catalog of Hay Internment Camp Notes below:

Coin Name Reverse Obverse Price Status
1941 Hay Internment Two Shillings Banknote Mendel / Stahl Uncirculated 1941 Hay Internment Two Shillings Banknote Mendel / Stahl Uncirculated 1941 Hay Internment Two Shillings Banknote Mendel / Stahl Uncirculated $12,500.00
Last sold for this price on 31/3/2020
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