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Auction: 21008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 254

(x) Palestine Currency Board, a uniface proof for a proposed (unadopted) issue of 500 mils, ND (18 March 1939), no serial number, blue, brown and yellow, Absalom’s Tomb in the Kidron Valley at the base of the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem at left, value at centre in brown-green guilloche, value at each corner
(Pick unrecorded, Banknote Book unrecorded, Dabbah p.311), in PMG holder 64 Choice Uncirculated, manuscript date 18.3.38 in lower right margin. This is the Dabbah plate note. One of only 4 known Absalom's Tomb 500 mils proofs, each unique in colour. This type has not been seen in auction for over 20 years. A gorgeous note and of the highest rarity

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Sold for
£20,000

Starting price
£15000