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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 634

(x) Banque du Congo-Belge, specimen 1000 francs, Elisabethville, ND (1920), brown, pale blue and green, female head diademed at top left, allegorical male figures and child at left, foliage in background, ELISABETHVILLE in red top right, French text, reverse brown, pale blue, maiden seated at left holding a lyre, waterfall at right, parrot and wreath of fruit around border, red ELISABETHVILLE in right field, Dutch text
(Pick 12as, TBB B207as), red SPECIMEN overprint, perforated ANNULE, a fresh and original good extremely fine and Elisabethville extremely rare as a branch for this type. A lovely note

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Sold for
£8,500