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Auction: 366 - World Banknotes NYINC - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 123

(x) Banque de Syrie et du Liban, Lebanon, specimen 100 livres, 1945, zero serial number O.000-000, red and multicoloured, ornate Arabesque design in field, value at each corner, Busson and Letayf signatures, reverse blue-green and multicoloured, Cedar tree at right, Mount Lebanon at left, value in red top left and right
(Pick 53s, Ayoub p.132/133), perforated SPECIMEN, in Legacy holder 65 PPQ 'Choice Uncirculated'. Ayoub states in his book 'Rare bill, 30 items known'. This is the classic 'carpet' note, one of the most attractive and iconic world banknotes and very rare especially in this top grade, only one other note listed in this exceptional grade on Track and Price at time of cataloguing and including fees it has realised astonish 19,200USD

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Sold for
£15,000

Starting price
£6500