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Auction: 15008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 2471

(†) Banco de Portugal, specimen colour proof 5 Escudos, ND (ca 1915), no serial numbers, no signatures, dark green, pale green and orange, maiden with cherub and cornucopia at lower left, maiden with sickle and basket at lower right, arms at lower centre, reverse blue and sepia, vignette of The Stock Exchange Palace, Oporto at centre right, value in ornate guilloches at upper and lower right, watermark allegorical female bust, perforated CANCELLED
(Pick 132 for type), ink date '24. 08. 1915' and annotations in top margin, otherwise fresh attractive good very fine to about extremely fine, of the utmost rarity, being an early proof of a note not issued until 1924 and then in different colours

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Estimate
£1,000 to £2,000