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Auction: CSS39 - The Numismatic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1703

The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, $500, specimen, Tientsin, 1.11.1930, brown and black, bust of a male Roman soldier at lower left, bank coat of arms at centre, '500' in light blue lower centre, reverse brown and pink, junk boat at lower centre,
(Pick S220s), PMG 63 Choice Uncirculated and extremely rare. A trophy item for any collection and has not been seen in public for a long while! The Tientsin equivalent to the Hong Kong 'Big Roman' $500 also issued in 1930.

Sold for
HK$240,000