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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 814

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 50 Escudos (7), 16 November 1945, serial number runs 000,001 to 020,000, signature Artur Meneses Correia de Sa; 020,001 to 040,000, signature Joao Baptista de Araujo; 040,001 to 060,000, signature Jose Gabriel Pinto Coelho; 060,001 to 080,000, signature Antonio Pedrosa Pimenta, 080,001 to 100,000, signature Francisco Jose Vieira Machado; 100,001 to 120,000, signature Manuel Rodrigues Junior; and 120,001 to 140,000, signature Antonio Augusto Correia de Agular, all blue and multicoloured, portrait of Bartolomeu Dias at right, steamship seal at left, reverse seated allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 44s (7)), mounting traces, ink date '21. 11. 45' and annotations in top margins, one note with damage at top right, otherwise very fine to good very fine and an exceptional opportunity to acquire seven consecutive specimens with different Administrador signatures (7)

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