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Auction: 12022 - World Banknotes
Lot: 323

† National Bank of Egypt, printer´s archival specimen 25 Piastres, 13 August 1917, serial run L/9 000,001 to L/9 100,000, deep purple on pale green and multicoloured underprint, banks of the Nile at centre, reverse deep blue on orange and pale blue underprint, value in guilloche, and printer´s archival specimen £1, 21 September 1914, serial run R/1 000,001 to R/1 100,000, blue on pink and light green underprint, ruins at left, reverse green on pink underprint, value in guilloche, both perforated CANCELLED (Pick 10as, 12as), ink annotations in top margins, the £1 upper right corner excised, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated and rare (2) Estimate £ 300-500

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