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Auction: 21009 - World Banknotes
Lot: 224

National Bank of Egypt, a printers archival specimen £5, 7 December 1910, serial number range C/2 020001-C/2 040000, yellow, pink-red and pale green underprint, the pyramids at Giza at left, value in each corner, reverse lilac and pale orange and green, value at left and right set in ornate guilloches
(Pick 3s for type, TBB B103bs, Hanafy M2 for type), perforated SPECIMEN, in PMG holder 45 Choice extremely fine and a very rare first issue for series. As a point of interest a similar item was sold for £6500 in a recent Spink auction

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Sold for
£5,000

Starting price
£4000