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Auction: 20009 - World Banknotes
Lot: 547

(x) Seamen's Overseas Service Payment Certificate, 1 dollar, ND (1940s), series 3, serial number 030052, purple and blue, seahorses at left and right,
(Schwan-Boling 971), fine. No issued examples have been in seen public auction before, only a handful known. Very little is known about the organisation and its banknotes. A couple of theories have been raised in regards to the origin and usage of these banknotes, including traveller's coupons, MPC substitutes for seamen, etc. Another interesting note, only examples of Series 3 have been seen, no Series 1 or 2 have been found. Mysterious....

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