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Auction: 14009 - World Banknotes
Lot: 974

(†) Banco de Portugal, specimen proof 5000 Escudos, ND (1942), no serial numbers, deep blue-green, purple and multicoloured, portrait of Queen Eleanor at right, three children with basket at lower left, arms at top centre, reverse woman, old man and child set in an ornately carved archway at centre, allegorical figures representing music and art at lower left and lower right respectively, one punch hole
(Pick 157p), signed approval dated 28 August 1942 endorsed in ink on obverse, excess surface ink on reverse, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare

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