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Auction: 25025 - The Victoria Falls Collection of Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia and Nyasaland Banknotes
Lot: 71

Southern Rhodesia, British Administration, *TOP POP* £10, Salisbury, 15th April 1953, serial number E/2 051365, sign. Strachan & Grafftey-Smith, brown and green with multicolour underprint, Queen Elizabeth II at right. Charming imagery of nature dominates both sides of the note, underscoring the region's magnificent landscape and wildlife. The front of the note features a beautiful illustration of a lion resting in the shade of a tree that vertically borders the note's left margin. The note's reverse depicts an equally beautiful illustration of a family of elephants emerging from the trees into a clearing of long grass, with foliage surrounding the picture's ornate border.
(Pick 15a), in PMG holder 35 Choice Very Fine, minor rust, the highest grade awarded by PMG for this note

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Estimate
£3,500 to £5,000

Starting price
£2400