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Auction: 12022 - World Banknotes
Lot: 217

† Central Bank of China, a group of black and white photographic style proofs, all circa 1942, comprising profile portraits of Dr Sun Yat-sen (3), dated ´7-8-42´, lettered A without value, B and C with 500 printed on neck, also reverse for a 10 Yuan note, military trumpeter and Great Wall (Pick 245 for type), and unadopted reverses for a 100 Yuan note (5) comprising factory scene with chimneys (2), seated worker, pylons and mine (2) and railway line and rock face (all Pick unlisted), and a reverse for a 500 Yuan note, value and guilloche (Pick 264 for type), about uncirculated to uncirculated, unusual and rare (10) Estimate £ 200-300

Sold for
£850