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Auction: 18052 - The Alan Pickering Collection of East Africa and Other Properties
Lot: 1047

(x) East African Currency Board, a printers archival specimen 1000 Shillings or 50 Pounds, 2 January 1939, serial number A/1 00000, orange-brown and pale tan underprint, portrait of King George VI at top left, value top right, value at centre and at each corner, signatures of Bottomley, Kershaw and Freeston, reverse brown, lion and Mount Kenya at centre, value in each corner and set in ornate guilloches at left and right
(Pick 31Bs, TBB B221s), in PCGS Currency holder 58PPQ CHOICE ABOUT NEW, perforated CANCELLED, a lovely and extremely rare note, possibly the only example extant

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