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Auction: 16015 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1499

(†) Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Portuguese India, a group of printer's archival specimens of the 29 November 1945 Series, comprising 20 Rupias, serial number run 300,001 to 315, 000, blue; 50 Rupias, serial number run 100,001 to 112,000, deep red; and 100 Rupias, serial number run 082,001 to 094,000, purple, all portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque at right, reverse maiden looking out at ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 37s, 38s, 39s), mounting traces, ink annotations and dates in top margins, the first otherwise about very fine, the second very fine, the third 16 mm tear, otherwise about extremely fine and a rare group (3)

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