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Auction: 15038 - Banknotes, Bonds and Shares, Coins and Medals of South East Asia sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 60

Government of Ceylon, a superb group of printer's archival photographs for a proposed issue of currency notes dated Colombo, 1 October 1939, and comprising an obverse and reverse 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 rupees, all George VI at right
(Pick unrecorded, Linzmayer unrecorded), a splendid and fascinating archival group proposed just prior to the outbreak of World war II and subsequently unadopted, unique and an important record (16)

Sold for
SG$4,500