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Auction: 16008 - British and World Banknotes
Lot: 1843

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, St Thomas and Prince, printer's archival specimen 50 Escudos, 12 August 1946, serial number runs 000,001 to 020,000, signature Pimenta; 020,001 to 025,000, signature Coelho; 025,001 to 035,000, signature Machado; 035,001 to 040,000, signature Aguiar; 040,001 to 050,000, signature Visconde de Merceana; and 050,001 to 060,000, signature Araujo, all slate-grey and multicoloured, portrait of D. Afonso V at right, steamship seal at left, reverse, young woman looking out at ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 37s (6)), mounting traces, ink date '15. 8. 46' and annotations in top margins, otherwise about uncirculated and an extraordinary opportunity to acquire six consecutive specimens with different Administrator signatures (6)

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