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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 2677

South African Reserve Bank, printer's archival specimen £1 (2), 9 April 1949 and 2 April 1951, serial number runs B/27 000001 to B/27 1000000 and B/70 000001 to B/70 1000000; also specimen £1, 3. 12. 51. (date without name of month), serial number B/112 000000, all signature de Kock, blue and pale green, portrait of Van Riebeeck at upper left, galleons arriving at The Cape at lower right, the first note first line of text in English, the remainder first line of text in Afrikaans, reverse coat of arms, the first two notes perforated SPECIMEN, the third note overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, two punch holes
(Pick 92as, 92ds, 93ds), ink dates '8. 8. 47' and '8. 9. 50' and annotations in top margin of first two notes, the first otherwise about uncirculated, the second good very fine, the third good extremely fine, scarce (3)

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