{"id":11603,"date":"2012-07-15T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2019-12-03T22:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:09:55","slug":"leeward-islands-rare-10-shilling-note-1-sold-for-18000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=11603","title":{"rendered":"Leeward Islands rare 10-shilling note #1 sold for $18,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/leeward_islands_gli_10_s_1921.01.01_p2_a_1_00001_f.jpg alt=leeward_islands_gli_10_s_1921.01.01_p2_a_1_00001_f.jpg height=223 width=386>,<img src=https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/leeward_islands_gli_10_s_1921.01.01_p2_a_1_00001_r.jpg alt=leeward_islands_gli_10_s_1921.01.01_p2_a_1_00001_r.jpg height=222 width=386><\/p>\n<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Lockdales.com\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lockdales<\/a>, Eastern England&#8217;s premier coin dealers and auctioneers of collectables, sold a Leeward Islands 10-shilling note on Saturday 14 July 2012 for \u00a310,000 (US$18,000, including buyer&#8217;s premium). There are only two denominations for the Leeward Islands, both dated 1st January 1921. Rare in any form, this note is unique in that it is prefix A\/1 serial number 00001.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Elmy of Lockdales said: \u201cIts current owners are descendants of former Auditor General of Antigua, William Douglas Auchinleck,\u201d whose fascimile signature appears on this note, along with that of Francis W. Griffiths, both signing as COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY. On the back of the note &#8220;Issued 6 &#8211; 7 &#8211; 21&#8221; is written in pencil.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, Lockdales, Eastern England&#8217;s premier coin dealers and auctioneers of collectables, sold a Leeward Islands 10-shilling note on Saturday 14 July 2012 for \u00a310,000 (US$18,000, including buyer&#8217;s premium). There are only two denominations for the Leeward Islands, both dated 1st January 1921. Rare in any form, this note is unique<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=11603\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[301],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-caribbean","tag-leeward-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11604,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions\/11604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}