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Auction: 17032 - British Banknotes
Lot: 3762

(x) Manx Bank Limited, Isle of Man, specimen £1, Douglas, 18- (ca 1900), serial number 28507, black, grey and white, the Tower of Refuge at centre, value at left and right and at each corner, reverse grey and white, triskeles at centre, vignettes of the Albert Tower, the Laxey wheel, Castle Rushen and St. Germains Cathedral in field
(Quarmby 345), no issued notes of this type believed extant, only twelve unissued notes given to official sources and one believed held in a private collection (Quarmby p.122). red ink 'SPECIMEN' low right, good extremely fine and a handsome note, very rare

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