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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 816

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Cape Verde, printer's archival specimen 500 Escudos (4), 16 November 1945, serial number runs 000,001 to 005,000, signature Manuel Rodrigues Junior; 005,001 to 10,000, signature Francisco Jose Vieira Machado; 10,001 to 15,000, signature Antonio Augusto Correia de Agular; 15,001 to 20,000, signature Joao Baptista de Araujo, all brown, 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 46s (4)), mounting traces, ink date '21. 11. 45' and annotations in top margins, one note with thinning at top right, otherwise good very fine to about extremely fine and an exceptional opportunity to acquire four consecutive specimens with different Administrador signatures (4)

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