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Auction: CSS28 - Banknotes, Bonds & Shares and Coins of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 337

China, Xikang Provincial Bank, half Rupee, red and yellow, 28th year of the Republic (1939), black serial number D 0021904, , obverse landscape near Kangding with Tibetan monastery in the foreground. Tibetan inscription on reverse reads: khams gshing chen gyi dngul mdzod khang ("bank of the Kham Province")/ sgor mo phyed ("half rupee"; this inscription is also placed in the upper right and lower left corners on both sides of the note)/ krung yang tshes grang pu bka´ gnang ("by order of the Minister of Finance"),
(Pick S1739), PCGS Currency 45 Extremely Fine, rare in this condition

Sold for
HK$17,000