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Auction: 18015 - World and British Banknotes
Lot: 179

Central Bank of Ceylon, a fully printed specimen/proof for 10 rupees, 22 May 1972, serial number M/189 000000, bright blue and brown on multicoloured underprint, Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916-2000) at right, blue and brown, man harvesting rubber trees at centre, one cancellation hole
(Pick unrecorded, BB unrecorded), date in top margin '13-10-72', about uncirculated to uncirculated and almost certainly unique, a superb 'banknote that never was'

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Sold for
£3,500