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Auction: 14013 - World Banknotes
Lot: 219

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 2500 Reis with counterfoil, 1 March 1909, serial number run 000000 to 450000, black on blue, green and yellow underprint, portrait of Vasco da Gama at left, passage of ships round The Cape of Good Hope at right, steamship seal Type III at lower centre, red overprint S. THIAGO at upper right centre, reverse blue, allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 5bs), mounting traces, ink date '18. 5. 20' and annotation in top margin, otherwise good extremely fine and rare

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£600