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Auction: 14013 - World Banknotes
Lot: 239

(†) The Oriental Bank Corporation, Ceylon, printer's archival specimen 5 Rupees, Kandy Issue, 1 January 1881, serial run K 240001 to K 360000, black and pink, Queen Victoria, as empress, seated between two lions in oval at left, Mercury in oval at right, arms at upper centre, value in ornate guilloches in decorated panels at left and right, reverse blue and pink, crowned female heads at left and right, value in eight guilloches, perforated SPECIMEN BW&Co LONDON
(Pick S157s), pencil date '12 May' on obverse, otherwise fresh about uncirculated and a lovely note, very rare

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