Lot 4018

Description

Reserve Bank of India, George VI, watermarked banknote paper for five and ten rupees of type (P.18, 19), five rupees paper with watermark of George VI at left and legend 'Reserve/Bank/of/India' in four lines with '5' top left and bottom right; ten rupees similar with portrait at left and 'Ten rupees/ReserveBank/of/India Ten rupees' in five lines. Both with usual creases, otherwise very fine - extremely fine. (2)

Thought to have been salvaged in 1992 from S.S.Breda which was sunk off the Scottish coast in 1940 by German bombers.