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Auction: CSS39 - The Numismatic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 670

The HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $500, specimen, 1.1.1915, without serial numbers, brown, black and blue, bank coat of arms at upper centre, peasant farming with a buffalo at left, Chinese garden at right, 'SPECIMEN' overprinted in red diagonally at centre, reverse liliac and black, the old bank building at centre,
(Pick 165s), PMG 62 Uncirculated. A superb large sized note and top denomination of the series. The lilac reverse is only seen for the 1915 issue and thus making it a one year type. Of the highest rarity

Sold for
HK$280,000