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Auction: CSS45 - Banknotes, Bonds & Shares and Coins of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2678

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, $500, archival specimen, 1.8.1952, serial number D786504, brown, blue and multicoloured, Sir Thomas Jackson at right, coat of arms top centre, watermark of a woman in classical style at left, reverse blue, bust of woman at left and old HSBC building at centre, 'SPECIMEN' in red block letters overprinted, the signatures cut cancelled, acquired by the vendor from the HSBC Headquarters in 1988,
(Pick 179b), extremely fine and authenticated by PMG without a numerical grade. An unusual form of specimen presumably made by the Bank in the absence of true specimens. Rare

Sold for
HK$9,000