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Auction: CSS09 - The Numismatic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1180

Hong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $5 Specimen, 1.4.1941, serial number J000000, brown and multicoloured, reclining maiden at right, coat of arms at centre, watermark of warrior head at left, reverse brown, bank building at centre
(Pick 173cs), good extremely fine, an unusual piece in that the note has four extra zeros printed vertically where the Duress numbers are printed. The Duress overprint was an emergency phenomenon and therefore it is puzzling why a 'Duress Specimen' is found, unusual

Sold for
HK$16,000