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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1638

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, specimen proof 100 Escudos, ND (1958), no serial numbers, no signatures, reverse underprint only; also printer's archival specimens 100 Escudos (2), 16 June 1958, serial runs 600001 to 110000 and 1100001 to 1600000 respectively, different signature combinations, all red on orange and multicoloured underprint, all portrait of Bartolomeu Dias at right, steamship seal at left, arms at lower centre, reverse of the first, orange and pink underprint only, reverse of the last two, allegorical woman looking out at ships, value in ornate guilloches at left and right
(Pick 49p, 49s (2)), mounting traces, ink annotations and 1975 dates in top margins, the first otherwise extremely fine, the remainder about uncirculated, rare (3)

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