Auction: 15028 - World Banknotes                                                                                                                                                                     
                    
                    Lot: 629
                
                    
                        (†) Central Bank of Turkey, printer's archival specimen 2½ Lirasi, Law of 1930 (ca 1945), Seri A1, serial number run 000001 to 500000, dark brown and multicoloured, perforated SPECIMEN; also specimen colour trial 2½ Lirasi, Law of 1930 (ca 1940), no serial numbers, green, red Bradbury Wilkinson SPECIMEN seal at lower left, one punch hole, both portrait of Ismet Inonu at right, reverse Ankara museum
(Pick 140s, 140ct; LNZ TCMB B13as, B13t), mounting traces, ink date '16. 6. 45' and annotations on first note, both otherwise uncirculated, very scarce (2)  
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