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Auction: 15009 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1

(†) Bank of Abyssinia, specimen 500 thalers, ND (c.1914), no serial number, purple on multicolour underprint, Emperor Menelik II holding a rifle and shield at left, lion and sceptre at top centre, red CANCELLED overprints, perforated ANNULE and CANCELLED
(Pick 5s, LNZ BOA B5s), this is the Linzmayer plate note, ink annotations in top margin, about uncirculated and a truly spectacular banknote, extremely rare

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£1,700