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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 2861

Zanzibar Government, colour trial 20 rupees, 1 January 1908, no serial numbers, dark purple on pink, orange and green underprint, dhow in full sail at left, workers harvesting cloves at right, values at centre and each corner, four cancellation holes, red overprint SPECIMEN OF NO VALUE and blue WATERLOW & SONS roundel at low centre
(Pick 4ct, LNZ ZB B4at2), faint mounting traces at left, gloriously original, about uncirculated, an utterly superb example of the ultra-rare Zanzibar series

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Sold for
£41,000