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Lot 2339    Session 8 (2.30pm Wednesday)    World Banknotes

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au

GREAT BRITAIN, Bank of England, twenty pounds, London, 20 August 1936, No.53/M 35902, (cf P.337a and note p.531). Operation Bernhard Forgery, nearly uncirculated.

Operation Berhard forgeries were almost perfect counterfeits produced by prisoners in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen during World War II. The enterprise was code named 'Operation Bernhard'.

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