Indian Banknotes - Collection
Lot 3935 Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday) Indian Banknotes - Collection
Estimate $3,500
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SOLD $6,500
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, five rupees 'B' (Bombay), 8 April 1915, 'SPECIMEN', no signature, MC/91 00000 (P.A6a; Jhun.1.4B.1 type), diagonally overprinted 'SPECIMEN' in blue ink bottom right. Several small creases, nearly extremely fine and very rare.
Possibly the latest date known of this type, the only example we have seen of a specimen from this period without signature, sold with original descriptive holder from the 1970s.
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, five rupees 'B' (Bombay), 8 April 1915, 'SPECIMEN', no signature, MC/91 00000 ...
Estimate $3,500
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