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Auction: 16037 - The Bruce Smart Collection of Middle East and North Africa
Lot: 176

(x) Banque de Syrie, printer's archival specimen 500 Piastres, 1 August 1919, serial number run E/A 000,001 to E/A 020,000 , brown-purple and multicoloured, value in guilloche at left, cedar tree at right, reverse deep grey-green, brown and yellow, view of Beirut harbour at centre, value at left and right, perforated CANCELLED
(Pick 5s), mounting traces, ink date '25. 5. 19' and annotations in top margin, in PMG holder 64, choice uncirculated and rare

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