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Auction: 16015 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1498

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Portuguese India, printer's archival specimen, 10 Rupias (2), 29 November 1945, serial number run 000,001 to 050,000, signatures of Antonio dos Santos Viegas as Governor and Artur Meneses Correia de Sa-Visconde de Merceana as Administrator; and serial number run 050,001 to 100,000, signatures of Antonio dos Santos Viegas as Governor and Joao Baptista de Araujo as Administrator, both brown and multicoloured, portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque at right, reverse maiden looking out at ships, perforated CANCELLED
(Pick 36s (2)), mounting traces, ink date '5. 12. 45' and annotations in top margin, otherwise about extremely fine and an extraordinary opportunity to acquire two consecutive printer's archival specimens with different administrator signatures, rare

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£950