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Auction: 12022 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1751

† British Armed Forces, a group of printer´s specimens of the 2nd series comprising 3d, with watermark, brown; 6d (2) with security thread and with watermark, both blue-green; 1/- (3) one with security thread and two with watermark (2), red-orange; 2/6 (2), prefix DD/6 with security thread and prefix DD/7 with watermark, lilac; 5/-, red prefix CD/1 with watermark, blue; £1 (3), prefixes AA/4, AA/9 and no prefix, all with security thread, purple; and £5, prefix EE/1, blue and olive, all perforated CANCELLED except £1 AA/4 overprinted with one De La Rue Specimen oval in black on obverse and £5 overprinted SPECIMEN in red with two De La Rue Specimen ovals on obverse and reverse [Pick M16bs, M17as, M17bs, M18as (2), M18bs, M19as, M19bs, M20cs, M22as (3), M23s], mounting traces, ink annotations in top margin, 35mm slits on both copies of 2/6, otherwise extremely fine to good extremely fine and very scarce (13) Estimate £ 400-600

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