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Auction: 14013 - World Banknotes
Lot: 223

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 5 Escudos (2), 1 January 1921, serial number runs 149.001 to 300,000 and 300,001 to 340,000 respectively; also specimen 5 Escudos, 1 January 1921, no serial numbers, all black on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Francisco Oliveira de Chamico at left, steamship seal at right, arms at lower centre, value in each corner, reverse seated allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, the first two perforated CANCELLED, the third two punch holes
[Pick 34s (3)], mounting traces, the first two annotations and ink dates '23. 2. 23' and '10. 5. 27' respectively in top margins, the first otherwise good extremely fine, the second very fine, the third fine (3)

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