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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2974488, member: 71234&quot;]Many years ago, and certainly up to the 1960s, it was a practice of British bank&#039;s foreign exchange departments to have a book of all the current foreign notes they thought they might encounter, as un-numbered &#039;Specimen&#039; examples of genuine notes.</p><p>I assume that when a new note was issued the old page was destroyed or returned to the head office.</p><p>At that time, as now, most specimen notes carried a high collector value premium but I never encountered more than a rumour of any of these books escaping onto the open market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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