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Auction: CSS32 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series incl. The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Tibetan Coins, Tibetan and Nepalese Banknotes
Lot: 199

China, Farmers Bank of China, 5 yuan, issue of 1935, serial no. EG 000781, overprinted with Tibetan legend in the two side-panels on obverse: sgor mo lnga ("five yuan"). Another note of the same bank and same denomination without Tibetan overprint for comparison.

The note with Tibetan overprints is illustrated in the following publications: Zhang Zhizhong: Zhongguo Zhi bi ("Chinese Paper Money"), Tianjin, 1996, and Bertsch, Wolfgang: The Paper Currency of Tibet. Thyaka Research Centre, Gundernhausen (near Darmstadt) and Lalitpur (Nepal), 2012, p. 196, fig. 123.


(Pick not listed), The note with overprint fine and very rare, the second note very good (2)


民國二十四年中國農民銀行伍圓，加蓋藏語版，另枚無正票，均F，少見品種

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HK$3,200