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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1639

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, specimen proof 500 Escudos (2), ND (1958), no serial numbers, no signatures, reverse of first note underprint only; also printer's archival specimen 500 Escudos, 16 June 1958, serial run 100001 to 150000, two signatures, all brown-violet on multicoloured underprint, all portrait of Bartolomeu Dias at right, steamship seal at left, arms at lower centre, reverse of the first, olive-green and violet underprint only, reverse of the last two, allegorical woman looking out at ships, value in ornate guilloches at left and right
(Pick 50p (2), 50s), mounting traces, ink annotations and various dates in top margins, the first and third otherwise about uncirculated, the second extremely fine, very rare (3)

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