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Auction: CSS41 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series sale
Lot: 372

The Mercantile Bank of India Limited, $500, specimen, 26.5.1959, serial number 0000, blue on multicolour, Mercury at right, '500' at each corner, watermark of '500 DOLLARS' at left, printed black manuscript signatures at lower centre and right, reverse grey-blue, the 'Wan Gu Chang Chun' pai fan in Confucius' Cemetery at left, 'SPECIMEN' overprinted in red both sides,
(Pick 243s), PMG 66EPQ Gem Uncirculated, the ONLY note in this HIGHEST GRADE in the PMG population report. Only 1000 notes of this date was issued and thus extremely rare and a 'must have' note.


Estimate
HK$380,000 to HK$500,000