World Banknotes
Lot 2795 World Banknotes
Estimate $2,500
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CHINA, International Banking Corporation, specimen one hundred dollars, Shanghai, (local currency), 1st January 1905, by American Bank Note Co. New York, with three holes as prepared and stamped in red Specimen, normal signatures, No. 000000, and F8504 on back, blue on multi colour, (cf.P.S422s). Uncirculated and very rare.
A similar example sold in Singapore in auction February 1997 (lot 965) realised over US$2750.
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