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Auction: 11021 - Ceylon Banknotes
Lot: 1431

Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, Australia and China, specimen 1 pound, Colombo, 18- (c.1867), blue and white with value in brown underprint low centre on background of interlocking concentric circles, royal arms top centre, value in oval frame top left and right, reverse blue and white, value at left and right (PS unlisted denomination, PS 117 for similar), small black SPECIMEN low right, several small ink annotations ´rupees ten´ and ´one pound´, almost extremely fine and most attractive, one of only two believed extant, the other in the Hong Kong bank archive Estimate £ 4,000-5,000

Estimate
£4,000 to £5,000