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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 2725

(†) Central Bank of Ceylon, a printers archival composite essay on card for a proposed issue of 5 rupees, ND (1978), serial number A/1 000000, red and mauve, circular design at right, mythical figures at centre, flowers at left, reverse red, boats, shoreline and fishermen pulling in a net, flowers low right
(Pick unrecorded, Linzmayer unrecorded), in 1979 Ceylon became the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka which probably explains why this design not adopted. Pretty and unique

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Sold for
£600