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Auction: 14013 - World Banknotes
Lot: 240

(†) The Oriental Bank Corporation, Ceylon, printer's archival specimen 10 Rupees, Newera Ellia Issue, 1 January 1881, serial run N 017001 to N 032000, black, brown and red, 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 pink and grey, helmeted female heads at left and right, value in six guilloches, perforated SPECIMEN BW&Co LONDON
(Pick not listed but similar design to PS161), pencil date '12 May' on obverse, otherwise fresh about uncirculated and a lovely note, extremely rare

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