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Lot 2489 Session 9 (4.30pm Thursday) World Banknotes
Estimate $100
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INDIA, unprinted paper note form for ten rupees (1940) by Portals (owned by Bank of England) as salvaged (circa 1991) from the wreck of S.S.Breda sunk in Borderloch, Scotland 23rd December 1940 as a result of enemy action. Paper watermarked with original portrait of George VI and wording Ten Rupees / Reserve Bank of India Ten Rupees. Good extremely fine.
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