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5 Pounds Montagu Bank

5 Pounds (Montagu Bank) - obverse5 Pounds (Montagu Bank) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Cape of Good Hope (South Africa (pre-Union))
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Standard circulation banknotes
Year 1860 (1860-1868)
Currency Pound
Composition Paper
Size 237 × 146 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
430084
References P# S231
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

Obverse

Black and white with a green central panel, Montagu top left, town and mountains top centre

Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive), Latin (Fraktur blackletter)

Lettering:
MONTAGU BANK
CAPE of GOOD HOPE
WE PROMISE to pay to the Bearer
at our Office here, on demand, the Sum of
FIVE POUNDS Sterling, value received.
No, 1487 Montagu, 18__ No. 1487
£ FIVE
Ent. _____________ For the Directors.

William Brown & ㏇ Sc. 40 & 41, Old Broad St. London — Agent, Ewan Christian, Cape Town.
HARD STEEL PLATE.

Reverse

Blank.

Watermark

Five, 5

Comments

Printed by William Brown & Co of Cape Town.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1860 
ND (1861-1868)  Unissued Remainder.

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