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Auction: 18015 - World and British Banknotes
Lot: 289

(x) French Indo-Chine, a specimen presentation booklet titled 'INSTITUT D'EMISSION DES ETATS DU CAMBODGE,DU LAOS ET DU VIET-NAM, containing a specimen 1 piastre, ND (1953), specimen 1 piastre (3), type of 1952, for Cambodia, Sihanouk, Laos, Sisavang Von and Vietnam, S.M.Bao Dai, all green and yellow, specimen 1 piastre (3), type of 1954, obverse blue, trees, reverse for Cambodia the Kings palace at Phnom-Penh, for Laos, the pagoda of Luang-Prabang and for Vietnam, a dragon in the Temple garden at Hue, all blue and green, reverse blue and brown, specimen 5 piastres (3), type of 1953, green, the Mekong, reverse green, for Cambodia Naja, for Laos the Stupa of That-Luong and for Vietnam a portrait of S.M.Bao Dai, specimen 10 piastres (3), type of 1953, purple, pale orange-yellow and pale blue, reverse purple, for Cambodia, dancers, for Laos, a young Laotian girl, for Vietnam a rock in the Bay of Along, specimen 100 piastres (3), type of 1954, multicoloured, three local girls in national dress, reverse multicoloured, for Cambodia the Temple at Angkor, for Laos a young girl and a pagoda, for Vietnam a portrait of S.M.Bao Dai and the tomb of Khai-Dinh, specimen 200 dong (2), type of 1953, multicoloured, elephant and water buffalo, reverse multicoloured, for Cambodia the head of Bayon at Angkor, for Vietnam a portrait of S.M.Bao Dai and a pagoda
(Pick 92s,93s,94s,99s,104s,100s,95s,101s,105s,106s,96s,102s,107s,97s,103s,108s,98s,109s), an immaculate presentation with original slip case, very rare and desirable (18)

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