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Auction: 25025 - The Victoria Falls Collection of Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia and Nyasaland Banknotes
Lot: 90

Southern Rhodesia, British Administration, £10, Salisbury, 10th March 1954, serial number E/3 047087, sign. Pechey & Grafftey-Smith, brown and green on 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 15b), in PMG holder 30 Very Fine, the second-highest grade awarded by PMG, a rare and exceptional note with only 1 note graded higher and only 6 to 8 examples of this note believed to be extant

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Estimate
£6,000 to £9,000

Starting price
£4200