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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1662

(†) Central Bank of Ceylon, specimen colour trial 50 Rupees, ND (ca 1961), no serial numbers, purple and black on blue underprint, President S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike at right, reverse brown-purple, Moonstone Steps, Polonnaruwa; also specimen proof 50 Rupees, 7 June 1971, serial number S/110 00000, purple, green and multicoloured, smiling President S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike at right, reverse terraced tea plantation, the first overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, one punch hole
(Pick 65ct, 79p - unrecorded date), the first paper clip indentation, the second ink date '24/12/71' and 'not approved' in top margin, otherwise both about uncirculated to uncirculated, the second note an extremely rare unissued date (2)

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