2017-08-16 Wed

On 4th August, Stacks’ Bowers World Currency Auction sold a six-piece set of colour trial specimens issued in the 1960s by the Qatar & Dubai Currency Board for $58,750 in Denver. The set consists of 1-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, and 100-riyal specimen undated notes, graded Gem Uncirculated 66 and 67. Only six such highly graded 1-riyal notes are available.

A rare 1906 Philippines 500-peso silver certificate printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, graded Very Fine 25 was sold for $39,950, doubling its estimated value.

A 1924 Dominion of Canada $5 note, graded About Uncirculated 50 Exceptional Paper Quality was sold for $14,100. The note was not released until 1934. One-third of the 2 million notes printed were released since the Bank of Canada was founded in that year which started issuing its own notes.

A huge 1998 Philippine 100,000-piso commemorative note, graded Gem Uncirculated quality sold for $15,275. The note celebrates 100 years of the First Republic and features the country’s president from 1992 to 1998, Fidel “Eddy” Valdez Ramos. A thousand notes were printed, and most of them were handed over to diplomats.