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Auction: 13020 - Tibetan Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 555

China, Xikang Provincial Bank, five Rupees, 28th year of the Republic (1939), black serial number E0080000 printed in red over number D0026789 on obverse and number D0026789 in black on reverse. The red seal is double printed. The obverse features a Tibetan stupa next to a tree and a monastery in the background. The Tibetan inscription on reverse is like on the half and one Rupee note, except the second line of text (and the inscription in the upper right and lower left corners) which reads sgor mo lnga ("five Rupees"), (Pick S1741), uncirculated and extremely rare (possibly unique) in this grade and with serial number error.

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HK$42,000