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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 815

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 100 Escudos (7), 16 November 1945, serial number runs 080,001 to 090,000, signature Artur Meneses Correia de Sa; 090,001 to 100,000, signature Francisco Pinto Castelo Branco; 100,001 to 115,000, signature Joao Baptista de Araujo; 115,001 to 120,000, signature Jose Gabriel Pinto Coelho; 120,0001 to 130,000, signature Antonio Pedrosa Pimenta; 130,001 to 140,000, signature Francisco Jose Vieira Machado; and 140,001 to 150,000, signature Antonio Augusto Correia de Agular, all red and multicoloured, portrait of Bartolomeu Dias at right, steamship seal at left, reverse seated allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 45s (7)), mounting traces, ink date '7. 4. 48' and annotations in top margins, otherwise very fine and an exceptional opportunity to acquire seven consecutive specimens with different Administrador signatures (7)

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