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Introduction to the Show and Sale
Foreword
On behalf of the entire Archives International Auctions team, I would like to personally welcome you to
our 37th auction we have held over the last nine years. We are excited to offer a wide variety of numis-
matic material over two days, December 6th for U.S. Banknotes and Scripophily and December 13th for
Chinese and Worldwide Banknotes, Coins and Chinese Scripophily.
Included in the sale is a large and varied group of Banknotes, Scripophily and Security Printing Ephemera
from numerous estates and longtime collections with many items having never been offered privately or
by auction in over 30 to 50 years or are estate discovery pieces new to the collecting community. The sale
begins on Tuesday, December 6th with an offering of over 480 lots of desirable U.S. banknotes, Liberty
Loans, Scripophily and security printing ephemera. The second session on Tuesday, December 13th begins
with the offering of over 200 Chinese banknotes followed by the balance of the world of another 470 lots
of worldwide banknotes.
Some of the many foreign highlights of the auction include over 200 lots of China banknotes including a
discovery collection of early 1930’s Communist Chinese issue rarities; a Bank of Communications, 1913
“Hunan” Branch Issue Discovery Note and possibly unique issued; a 5 Tael, Deutsch-Asiatische Bank,
1907 “Peking” Branch High Grade Rarity; a £10 Commonwealth of Australia, ND (1954-59) Specimen
Banknote Rarity; a Banco De La Compania De Credito De Puerto Plata, 1886 Issued Banknote Rarity
previously only known as a remainder; Imperial Bank of Persia, Specimen and Issued Banknote trio; a
Government of Iraq, 10 Dinars, L. 1931 Issued Banknote; and literally dozens of rare and desirable notes
rarely seen at auction.
U.S. Highlights include a United States, $100, Act of October 12th, 1837 Interest Bearing Proof Treasury
Note from the Silver City Collection, 1 of 3 discovered; 2 lots of First Liberty Loan Bonds of 1917; a U.S.
Department of the Interior - Federal Related Cherokee Nation, 1894 Specimen Bond; over 50 lots of U.S.
Obsolete banknotes and hundreds of desirable and attractive Scripophily.
We are now working on our Winter 2017 auctions with our first sale to be held in early February.
We will be attending the New York International Coin Convention and the Virginia Stock and Bond show
in January. We are seeking consignments for our upcoming 2017 auctions including our February dates.
I would like to thank everyone who has participated in our previous sales and has helped make this
auction series a resounding success. We are looking forward to another exciting auction and hope you
enjoy our current offerings.
Best of luck,
Bob Schwartz