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Auction: 13034 - World Banknotes
Lot: 3

(†) Bank of Afghanistan, printer's archival specimen 20 Afghanis (2), SH1318 (1939), both serial runs 000001 to 500000, violet and multicoloured, King Muhammad Zahir at left, reverse mountain scenery; also obverse stage proofs (2) for 20 Afghanis, one with green, orange and purple underprint, the other with green, purple and violet underprint, both showing guilloche at upper centre and underprint only, the archival specimens both perforated CANCELLED
[Pick 24as(2), 24ap (2)] mounting traces, ink date '22. 1 .40' and annotations in top margins, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated and a very rare group (4)

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