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Lot 3229    SESSION 8 (2.00PM THURSDAY 26TH NOVEMBER)    World Banknotes

Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $260

GREAT BRITAIN, Bank of England, Operation Bernhard Forgery, twenty pounds, London, 20 November 1930, No.44/M 56679, Catterns signature, Operation Bernhard 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', (S&B183 SCWPM337). Lightly pressed, otherwise very fine.

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