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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 811

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 100 Escudos (4), 1 August 1941, serial number runs A00,001 to A05,000, signature Antonio Augusto Correia de Agular; 05,001 to 10,000, signature Joao Baptista de Araujo; 10,001 to 15,000, signature Artur Meneses Correia de Sa; and 15,001 to 20,000, signature Jose Gabriel Pinto Coelho, all slate-purple on pale green and yellow underprint, portrait of Francisco Oliveira de Chamico at left, steamship seal at right, arms at lower centre, value in each corner, reverse seated allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, perforated CANCELLED
(Pick 40s (4)), mounting traces, ink date '26. 7. 41' and annotations in top margins, otherwise about uncirculated and an exceptional opportunity to acquire four consecutive specimens with different Administrador signatures (4)

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£700