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Auction: 15028 - World Banknotes
Lot: 648

(†) Territory of Western Samoa, printer's archival specimen £5, ND (1951), serial run 15001 to 21000, signature title MINISTER OF ISLAND TERRITORIES FOR NEW ZEALAND, purple on multicoloured underprint, rowing boat at lower centre, value in each corner, STERLING omitted from centre, reverse purple and aquamarine, value set in ornate guilloches at upper and lower centre and in each corner, perforated SPECIMEN

(Pick 9Aas), ink date '30 /5 /51'and annotations in reverse top margin, otherwise good extremely fine, Pick lists as "Reported not confirmed", excessively rare and a magnificent note

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