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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 1746

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Portuguese Guinea, printer's archival specimen 5 Escudos (6), 2 November 1944, serial number runs 150,001 to 300,000, signature Machado; 300,001 to 400,000, signature Visconde de Merceana; 400,001 to 500,000, signature Joao Baptista Araujo; 500,001 to 650,000, signature Correia de Aguiar; 650,001 to 825,000, signature Coelho; 825,001 to 1,000,000, signature Pimenta, all olive-green, portrait of Joao Teixeira Pinto at left, reverse seated allegorical woman looking out at sailing ships, all perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 25s (6)), mounting traces, ink date '5. 11. 44.' and annotations in top margins, otherwise about uncirculated or better and an exceptional opportunity to obtain consecutive specimens with six different Administrador signatures (6)

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