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Auction: CSS28 - Banknotes, Bonds & Shares and Coins of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 418

Russo Chinese Bank (Tientsin), uniface obverse progressive proof for 500 taels, 1907, black on orange, pink and multicolour, black coiled dragon at centre, flanked with green dragons at left and right, '500' in Chinese and Arabic numbers at each corner, printed manuscript signatures, printed by Bardbury Wilkinson, perforated 'SPECIMEN' at bottom centre,
(Pick S554s), PMG 55 About Uncirculated. The colours on the note is markedly different to the issued version. First time seen by the cataloguer and a very rare proof

Sold for
HK$85,000