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Auction: 14009 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1111

(†) South African Reserve Bank, a group of specimen proofs, ND (1959), all serial number 123456 at upper left and 789012 at lower right, all no signature, all Jan van Riebeeck at left, all first line of text in Afrikaans, comprising 10 Shillings, brown and multicoloured, reverse arms; £1, blue and multicoloured, reverse arms; £5,green and brown, reverse galleon; and £10, brown-violet and green, reverse mining scene, all one punch hole
(Pick 91s, 93s, 97s, 99s), printed date '15-10-59 as submitted' and ink annotations including 'Approved for style & size of numbering only for rand notes' in margins, ink circles around serial numbers, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated and a fascinating excessively rare set of proofs relating to the change of currency from pounds to rand (4)

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