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Auction: 9025 - World Banknotes
Lot: 1508

† Currency Board, specimen £50, 7 September 1939, red serial number A000000, purple and pale green, value in pale brown guilloche at centre, the White Tower at Ramleh at left, value at each corner, three printed signatures of Caulcutt, Ezechiel and Downie, reverse purple, the Citadel of Jerusalem with the Tower of David at centre, value at left and right (Pick 10c, Dabbah p.220 for similar), mounting traces, ink date ´aug 1939´ in top margin, mounting traces, perforated CANCELLED, small SPECIMEN overstamp low right margin, extremely fine and of the highest rarity Estimate £ 30,000-40,000

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£28,000