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Auction: 16015 - World Banknotes
Lot: 181

(†) Banque Centrale du Congo-Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, specimen 1000 Francs, 15 July 1958, serial number A 000000; also printer's archival specimen 1000 Francs, 15 July 1958, serial number run A 000001 to A 200000 both blue and multicoloured, portrait of King Baudouin at left, aerial view, reverse African village huts and palm trees, the first overprinted SPECIMEN diagonally in red on obverse and reverse, two punch holes, the second perforated CANCELLED
(Pick 35s (2); TBB B315as (2)), mounting traces, ink annotations and ink date 9/12/57 in top margins, the first otherwise extremely fine, the second about extremely fine, rare (2)

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