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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1633

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 20 Escudos and printer's archival specimen 50 Escudos, 16 November 1945, the first serial number run 300,001 to 370,000, green, the second serial number run 120,001 to 140,000, blue, both portrait of Bartolomeu Dias at right, steamship seal at left, arms at lower centre, reverse allegorical woman looking out at ships, value in ornate guilloches at left and right, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 43s, 44s), both mounting traces, ink date '7. 4. 48' and '21. 11. 45' respectively and annotations in top margin, the first otherwise good very fine, the second good extremely fine, rare (2)

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