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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1663

(†) Central Bank of Ceylon, printer's archival specimen 100 Rupees, 5 June 1963, serial number run V/41 00001 to V/50 100000, brown and indigo on multicoloured underprint, President Bandaranaike at right, reverse fresco of two women with lotus flowers, perforated SPECIMEN; also progressive proof 100 Rupees, ND (ca 1970), no serial numbers, missing portrait of Bandaranaike, bank legend at upper centre and value in Sinhalese and English in box at lower centre, reverse as above but with bank legend at upper right
(LNZ CBC B20, LNZ unlisted proof;. Pick 66s, Pick unlisted proof), ink dates and annotations in top margins, otherwise choice about uncirculated to uncirculated, the proof extremely rare (2)

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