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Auction: 9025 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1305

Banque de Syrie et du Liban, specimen 5 livres, 1945, zero serial numbers, blue and red and green, ornate background, urn at left, two drinking horns at right, Busson and Letayf signatures, reverse blue and multicoloured, Ras Beirut at centre, value in red at each corner (Pick 49, Ayoub p.124 and 125), a design by Clement Serveau, perforated SPECIMEN, uncirculated and rare, Ayoub states less than 40 issued examples believed extant Estimate £ 1,800-2,000

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£1,800