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Auction: 327 - World Banknotes at NY INC, Waldorf Astoria
Lot: 301

Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Portuguese India, printer's archival specimen 5 Rupias (3), 29 November 1945, serial number run 100,001 to 250,000, signatures of Antonio dos Santos Viegas as Governor and Manuel Rodrigues Junior as Administrador; serial number run 250,001 to 400,000, signatures of Antonio dos Santos Viegas as Governor and Artur Meneses Correia de Sa-Visconde de Merceana as Administrador; and serial number run 400,001 to 500,000, signatures of Antonio dos Santos Viegas as Governor and Antonio Augusto Correia de Aguiar as Administrador, all green and multicoloured, portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque in oval at right, bank seal at left, reverse maiden looking out at ships, perforated SPECIMEN
(Pick 35s (3)), mounting traces, ink date '5. 12. 45' and annotations in top margins, the first otherwise good extremely fine, the remainder otherwise about uncirculated and an extraordinary opportunity to acquire a consecutive trio of printer's archival specimens with different Administrador signatures. Only two consecutive trios with these number runs are extant (3)

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