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Auction: 9019 - Banknotes & Coins of South East Asia, Featuring the Bill Christensen Sarawak Collection of Banknotes & Coins
Lot: 86

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, specimen $25, Penang, 18- (c.1881), brown and white, vignette top centre of Britannia and allegorical symbols of Empire, value in oval tablet top left and right, value in brown central panel, text in various languages in borders around, reverse brown and white, value at centre (PS 134, C.C.Chan p.59, Tan CM21), this is the Tan and Chan plate note, Chan states this is the only example extant, black SPECIMEN overprint low right, of the highest rarity and a lovely example Estimate S$ 20,000-30,000

Sold for
SG$42,000