Macmillan £5 note is set to sell for £22,000
IT WAS presented at a time when £5 was worth a lot more but this £5 banknote, originally presented to former prime minister Harold Macmillan in 1957, is expected to sell for up to £22,000 at auction next week.
The note has the serial number A01 000003 and has an estimate of £18,000 to £22,000.
It is being put up for sale at Dix Noonan Webb’s auction of British, Irish and world banknotes next Thursday in Mayfair, London.
Thomasina Smith, head of numismatics at Dix Noonan Webb, said: “This important note is the lowest serial number note available to commerce and arguably the finest post-war Bank of England note in the public domain.
“Serial numbers one and two are held in the Royal Collection, having been presented to the Queen and the late Duke of Edinburgh.”
The sale also includes other banknotes, including from Ireland and Scotland, along with some English provincial banknotes, including a £5 dating from 1899 featuring York Minster, which has an estimate of £700 to £900.
From Pease’s Old Bank in Hull is a rare early example of a £10 note dating from 1772, which has an estimate of £800 to £1,000.