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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 1842

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, St Thomas and Prince, printer's archival specimen 20 Escudos, 12 August 1946, serial number runs 000,001 to 030,000, signature Machado; 030,001 to 055,000, signature Visconde de Merceana; 055,001 to 080,000, signature Araujo; 090,001 to 095,000, signature Aguiar; 095,001 to 120,000, signature Coelho; and 120,001 to 150,000, signature Pimenta, all brown and multicoloured, portrait of D. Afonso V at right, steamship seal at left, reverse, young woman looking out at ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 36s (6)), mounting traces, ink date '15. 8. 46' and annotations in top margins, otherwise two copies extremely fine to good extremely fine, the remainder about uncirculated and an extraordinary opportunity to acquire six consecutive specimens with different Administrator signatures (6)

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