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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 812

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 10 Escudos (7), 16 November 1945, serial number runs 000,001 to 070,000, signature Antonio Augusto Correia de Agular; 070,001 to 140,000, signature Antonio Pedrosa Pimenta; 140,001 to 210,000, signature Manuel Rodrigues Junior; 210,001 to 290,000, signature Artur Meneses Correia de Sa; 290,001 to 360,000, signature Francisco Jose Vieira Machado; 360,001 to 430,000, signature Joao Baptista de Araujo; and 430,001 to 500,000, signature Jose Gabriel Pinto Coelho, all violet and multicoloured, portrait of Bartolomeu Dias at right, steamship seal at left, reverse seated allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 42s (7)), mounting traces, ink date '21. 11. 45' and annotations in top margins, otherwise good extremely fine or better and an exceptional opportunity to acquire seven consecutive specimens with different Administrador signatures (7)

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£750