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Auction: 21008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 144

(x) East African Currency Board, 5 florins, Mombasa, 1 May 1920, black serial number A/4 40,909, blue, green and white, head of George V at top centre, value in blue tablet at centre, value at each corner, signatures of Mercer, Bottomley and Ezechiel, reverse green and white, lion and value
(Pick 9, TBB B203a), in PMG holder 25 Very Fine, closed pinholes, ink stamp, an attractive and scarce issued example, with only two graded by PMG at the time of cataloguing, very rare, on 23 July 1920 the East Africa Protectorate became the British Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, also in 1920, the East African Currency Board was appointed by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies to provide for and to control the supply of currency to Kenya and Uganda. Its functions were subsequently extended to the Tanganyika territory, as well as Aden (Yemen), the Somaliland Protectorate, and Zanzibar

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Sold for
£6,000

Starting price
£4800