BN 99 was issued first in 1861 according to John Hardinge's research, but lost and re-issued in 1883 using the first allocation numeral 66 of Port Cygnet.
I have a copy of the latter which is shown below, both as 66, and inverted as 99.
I have an image of the original BN 99 somewhere but cannot locate it at present.
Your example looks very similar to my BN 66 of Oyster cove.
BN 66, issued as one of the very fist batch of 186, was replace in December 1870 with a second version. I am guessing that between the two the ms cancels occasionally seen were produced. I do not at present have an example but clearly there were two versions of 66 and they would have looked slightly different. The first version is rated 4R and the second 5R so both are very hard to find.. The stamp upon which the numeral is seen will give a good indication of which version it is.
Here is First Allocation 66
- BN-66-first-all.jpg (42.73 KiB) Viewed 2238 times
And here is the same cancellation inverted to show how it must have looked as second allocation 99.
I hope this helps with identification of the second issue of BN 99
- BN-99--secondl.jpg (42.77 KiB) Viewed 2238 times
