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Auction: 16009 - World Banknotes
Lot: 80

Oriental Bank Corporation, Ceylon, 5 rupees, Kandy, 1 January 1881, serial number K273678, back on red underprint, female allegory flanked by lions at left, Mercury at right, arms at top centre, value at each corner, reverse red and blue, female heads at left and right
(Pick S162), totally original, with absolutely superb paper quality, signatures strong and clear, a spectacular good very fine, and a very rare note

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£3,200