World Banknotes
Lot 2536 Session 9 (4.30pm Wednesday) World Banknotes
Estimate $1,600
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SOLD $1,800
HONG KONG, Emergency World War II Issue. Hong Kong Government, one dollar, (1941), overprinted in red on Bank of China five yuan of 1941, B002437, (Ma G15, P.317). Small centre hole. Nearly uncirculated and very rare in this condition.
This note was in circulation for less than two weekas prior to the surrender of British and the Hong Kong defense force on December 25, 1941.
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