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Auction: 9019 - Banknotes & Coins of South East Asia, Featuring the Bill Christensen Sarawak Collection of Banknotes & Coins
Lot: 6

Oriental Bank Corporation, specimen 5 rupees, Colombo, 1 January 1883, serial number C 280001-C300000, black and white, value in pink underprint at centre, arms top centre, Queen Victoria as Empress seated on throne flanked by lions at left, head of Mercury at right, value at centre and at each corner, reverse blue and pink-red, medallic female head at left and right, value at centre and at left and right (PS 142), pencil date ´24 Mch. 82´, perforated SPECIMEN B.W.& CO LONDON, uncirculated, attractive and very rare Estimate S$ 9,000-11,000

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SG$9,500