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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 813

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 20 Escudos (7), 16 November 1945, serial number runs 000,001 to 050,000, signature Francisco Jose Vieira Machado; 050,001 to 100,000, signature Manuel Rodrigues Junior; 100,001 to 140,000, signature Artur Meneses Correia de Sa; 140,001 to 180,000, signature Antonio Augusto Correia de Agular; 180,001 to 220,000, signature Jose Gabriel Pinto Coelho; 220,001 to 260,000, signature Joao Baptista de Araujo; and 260,001 to 300,000, signature Antonio Pedrosa Pimenta, all green and multicoloured, portrait of Bartolomeu Dias at right, steamship seal at left, reverse seated allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 43s (7)), mounting traces, ink date '21. 11. 45' and annotations in top margins, two copies otherwise good very fine, one copy extremely fine, the remainder good extremely fine or better and an exceptional opportunity to acquire seven consecutive specimens with different Administrador signatures (7)

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