Pre-decimal note hoard ( NOT MINE )

[Yarrum]

It's Sunday night and we just got home from a bbq at some friends house around the corner. Had a great time and we got talking about
coins and banknotes cause my wife and I found a huge stash of silver up the street the other day and gave it to the cops (that's another story)
Anyway Jodie (the host's wife) says hey what about the stash of banknotes we found we told you about that didn't we. I said "nooooo"!!!!
So her husband Mick was ripping out an old double built in wardrobe to put a newer bigger one in and found an old Commonwealth (Australian) passbook with 18 x 5 pound Coombes/Wilson notes and 5 x 10 pound Coombes/Wilson notes. You may know that they were from just before we went to decimal
currency. The same sigs were on the first decimal notes.
Anyway the 5s start in the cruddiest condition at $30 each and a few of them are pretty crappy but the good ones are worth $130 each and they have a few that qualify. The 10s start at $100 and at least one of them is a $5 or 6 hundred dollar value it is in that good a condition.
I just about had kittens seeing all that loot in front of me. I rang Jodie when I got home and told her the approx values and she nearly had a heart attack.

I dream about a find like this and then it happens to someone else LOL. At least it's someone I know. And I got to have a good look through them and dream a little more.
No pics but I grabbed a couple off the net.
Thank for reading.

 

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[Bavaria Mike]

Interesting and great cache find! HH, Mike

 

[crazyjarhead]

Nice finds, downunder

 

[Harry_Morant]

Makes you wonder how many hoards second hand dealers find when they go through a house and furniture. I went to an auction today where it belonged to an old timer who passed away and had no family. His collection of valuable stuff was amazing. For instance the dealer found a tea set in a cupboard in a box of light bulbs and only later when they found the paperwork did they realise what it was. It was a Georg Jenson tea set which the old chap had paid $12000 for back in the 70s or 80s.

 

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