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Auction: 14008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 352

(†) National Bank of Egypt, printer's archival specimen 25 Piastres, 10 October 1918, serial number run L/50 000,001 to L/50 100,000, signature Rowlatt, blackish purple on pale green and multicoloured underprint, banks of the Nile at centre, value in each corner, reverse deep blue, light blue and orange, value in western and Arabic numerals set in guilloches and ornate pattern, overprinted SPECIMEN diagonally in red on obverse only, perforated CANCELLED
(Pick 10as, Hanafy M1s), mounting traces, ink date '13. 11. 18' and annotations in top margin, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated and a rarer specimen variety with red overprint

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£750