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Auction: CSS123B - China Banknotes and Coins
Lot: 1033

(x) Bank of China, obverse photographic proof for unissued design of 1 yuan, Year 1 (1912), black and white, building vignette at left,
PMG 62, previously mounted, foreign substance. One of the design proposals for the first Republic of China banknote issues with these losing out to the Huang Di issues. Similar design was later used on the 1917 issue replacing the building vignette with Li Yuan Hong. Interesting and unique

Estimate
HK$6,000 to HK$8,000