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South African Reserve Bank, specimen 10 shillings, 29 November 1933, brown on multicolour underprint, value at centre and each corner, reverse arms at centre, black SPECIMEN overprint, perforated CANCELLED (Pick 82d), some small glue marks, good extremely fine to about uncirculated £100-150
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South African Reserve Bank, printer's archival specimen £1 (2), 4 April 1944 and 6 April 1944, serial number runs A/137 000001 to A/137 1000000 and A/138 000001 to A/138 1000000 respectively, both Postmus signature, black on pale pink, orange and blue underprint, galleon at left, allegorical scenes at lower centre and lower right, reverse coat of arms at centre, both perforated SPECIMEN (Pick 84es (2)), ink date '27. 7. 43' and annotations in top margin of both copies, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated, rare (2) £200-250
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South African Reserve Bank, printer's archival specimen £1 (2), 10 September 1942 and 21 September 1942, serial number runs A/121 000001 to A/121 1000000 and A/122 000001 to A/122 1000000 respectively, both Postmus signature, black on pale pink, orange and blue underprint, galleon at left, allegorical scenes at lower centre and lower right, reverse coat of arms at centre, both perforated SPECIMEN (Pick 84es (2)), ink date '22. 10. 41' and annotations in top margin of both copies, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated, rare (2) £200-250
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South African Reserve Bank, printer's archival specimen £1, 5 November 1940, serial number run A/101 000001 to A/101 1000000, Postmus signature, black on pale pink, orange and blue underprint, galleon at left, allegorical scenes at lower centre and lower right, reverse coat of arms at centre, perforated SPECIMEN (Pick 84es), ink date '3. 9. 40' and annotations in top margin, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated, rare ink date '3. 9. 40' and annotations in top margin, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated, rare £100-130
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South African Reserve Bank, printer's archival specimen £5, 7 April 1943, serial number run B/23 000001 to B/23 1000000, Postmus signature, green on pale pink, yellow and blue underprint, galleon at left, allegorical scenes at lower centre and lower right, reverse coat of arms at centre, perforated SPECIMEN (Pick 86bs), ink date '27. 7. 43' and annotations in top margin, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated, rare £220-280
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South African Reserve Bank, 20 pounds, 4 September 1933, serial number C/3 087453, blue on multicolour underprint, Galleon at left, farming, cities and factories along lower edge, reverse same image in reverse in Afrikaans, six mid sized punch-holes and cancelled annotations (Pick 88b), very fine and a very scarce denomination, a similar example sold for £3225 in Oct 2013 £1,000-1,500
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South African Reserve Bank, specimen 10 shillings, 10 April 1948, serial number A/1 000000, first line of text in Afrikaans; also printer's archival specimen 10 shillings, 8 November 1948, serial number run A/14 000001 to A/14 1000000, first line of text in English, both de Kock signature, red-brown and multicoloured, Van Riebeeck at left, reverse arms at centre, the first overprinted SPECIMEN diagonally in red on obverse and reverse, two punch holes, the second perforated SPECIMEN (Pick 90as, 91as), the first good extremely fine, the second mounting traces, ink date '8. 8. 47' and annotations in top margin, otherwise extremely fine (2) £150-250
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South African Reserve Bank, printer's archival specimen £1 (2), 9 April 1949 and 2 April 1951, serial number runs B/27 000001 to B/27 1000000 and B/70 000001 to B/70 1000000; also specimen £1, 3. 12. 51. (date without name of month), serial number B/112 000000, all signature de Kock, blue and pale green, portrait of Van Riebeeck at upper left, galleons arriving at The Cape at lower right, the first note first line of text in English, the remainder first line of text in Afrikaans, reverse coat of arms, the first two notes perforated SPECIMEN, the third note overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, two punch holes (Pick 92as, 92ds, 93ds), ink dates '8. 8. 47' and '8. 9. 50' and annotations in top margin of first two notes, the first otherwise about uncirculated, the second good very fine, the third good extremely fine, scarce (3) £150-200
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South African Reserve Bank, £1 (2), 13 April 1951, consecutive serial numbers B75 745613/4, blue, portrait Jan van Riebeeck at left, ships low right, first line of bank title in English, reverse, lion at centre (Pick 92), uncirculated (2) £100-150
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South African Reserve Bank, £1 (2), 1 November 1955, consecutive serial number B217 040752/3, blue, portrait Jan van Riebeeck at left, ships low right, first line of bank title in English, reverse, lion at centre (Pick 92), uncirculated (2) £100-150
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South African Reserve Bank, £1 (2), 14 January 1958, consecutive serial numbers B315 266991/2, blue on multicolour, Jan van Riebeeck at left, sailing ships at low left, reverse, lion at centre (Pick 92), uncirculated (2) £50-100
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South African Reserve Bank, specimen colour trial £1, ND (ca 1948), no serial number, no signature, green on pale blue and orange underprint, portrait of Van Riebeeck at upper left, galleons arriving at The Cape at lower right, first line of text in Afrikaans, reverse coat of arms, overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, one punch hole (Pick 93ct), rusty paper clip impression, otherwise about uncirculated, rare £350-450
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South African Reserve Bank, specimen £1 (2), 1 September 1948 and 3 September 1948, serial numbers B/1 000000 and B/2 000000 respectively, both signature de Kock, blue and pale green, portrait of Van Riebeeck at upper left, galleons arriving at The Cape at lower right, first line of text in Afrikaans, reverse coat of arms, overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, two punch holes (Pick 93as), the first extremely fine to good extremely fine, the second good extremely fine to about uncirculated, scarce (2) £100-130
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South African Reserve Bank, £1 (2), 25 February 1955, consecutive serial numbers B202 983843/4, blue on multicolour, portrait Jan van Riebeeck at left, sailing ships low right, first line of bank name and value in Afrikaans, reverse, lion at centre (Pick 93), uncirculated (2) £100-150
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South African Reserve Bank, £1 (2), 25 February 1955, consecutive serial numbers B202 983845/6, blue on multicolour, portrait Jan van Riebeeck at left, sailing ships low right, first line of bank name and value in Afrikaans, reverse, lion at centre (Pick 93), uncirculated (2) £100-150
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South African Reserve Bank, a small group comprising, 1 pound, 1958, 2 rand (2), 1962, 10 rand (2), 1961 and 1962 and 20 rand, 1961, all with Van Riebeeck at left (Pick 93e, 104b, 106a, 106b, 108), very fine to about uncirculated, the two rand consecutive (6) £150-200
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South African Reserve Bank, 10 pounds, 10 August 1955, serial number D/2 819905, maroon and green on multicolour underprint, van Riebeeck and animals at left, value at centre and each corner, value in English first (Pick 98), fresh and original about uncirculated £100-150
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South African Reserve Bank, specimen colour trial £100, ND (ca 1952), serial number 000000, no signature, sage green and black on pink, pale blue and pale green underprint, portrait of Van Riebeeck at upper left, galleon at right, first line of text in English, reverse coat of arms, value in guilloches with acanthus scrolls at lower left and right, overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, two punch holes (Pick 100ct), mount marks and glue stains, otherwise good very fine and excessively rare £1,200-1,800
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South African Reserve Bank, 2 rand, ND (1962-65), serial number Y2 896749, blue on multicolour underprint, portrait Jan van Riebeeck at left, sailing ships low right, reverse, lion at centre (Pick 104b), replacement note, extremely fine, rare £80-120
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South African Reserve Bank, specimen colour trial 10 rand, ND (ca 1961), serial number C/1 000000, no signature, purple and dark green on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Van Riebeeck at upper left, the Great Trek at lower right, first line of text in English, reverse galleon, overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, one punch hole (Pick 106ct), choice about uncirculated to uncirculated, very scarce £120-180
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South African Reserve Bank, specimen colour trial 20 rand, ND (ca 1961), serial number D/1 000000, no signature, green and dark brown on multicoloured underprint, portrait of Van Riebeeck at upper left, woodland with animals at left, mother and child at right, first line of text in English, reverse mining scene, overprinted SPECIMEN in red on obverse and reverse, one punch hole (Pick 108ct), choice about uncirculated to uncirculated, very scarce £200-300
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South African Reserve Bank, 10 rand (2), ND (1961-65), prefixes C/2 and C/34, and 20 rand, ND (1961), prefix D/2, first with de Kock signature, others with Rissik signature, all with van Riebeeck at left (Pick 107a, 107b, 108), all original, good extremely fine, about extremely fine and extremely fine respectively (3) £100-150
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South African Reserve Bank, a presentation booklet containing specimens for 1 rand (2), 5 rand (2) and 10 rand (2), ND (1967-74), all with Van Riebeeck at left, each note stuck down at each corner, three with obverse showing, and three with reverse showing, each with two cancellation holes, and red SPECIMEN overprints (Pick 109s2, 111s2, 113s2), an attractive presentation, notes all mounted, but otherwise uncirculated, rare (6) £500-600
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South African Reserve Bank, obverse and reverse printers archival photograph showing an initial design for the 10 rand of 1966, black and white, Van Riebeeck at left, springbok at low right, reverse three galleons at centre (Pick 113 for type), several differences from the issued note, pencil dates 20/11/63 on reverse, showing it clearly took them almost three years to finalise, print and release the notes (2) £120-160
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South African Reserve Bank, specimen 1 rand, brown, 2 rand, blue, 5 rand, violet and 10 rand, green, all ND (1973-), all zero serial numbers and de Jongh signature, Van Riebeeck at left (Pick 116as, 117as, 111bs, 113cs), uncirculated and scarce £250-300
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 5 shillings, 1 February 1945, serial number D25 000,001/ D26 100,000, purple, portrait King George VI at right, arms top centre, Beadle signature, reverse, denomination in ornate tablet at centre (Linzmayer SRCB B2a3s, Pick 8), ink annotations along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN low centre, slight glue residue at right on reverse, about uncirculated £400-600
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 5 shillings, 1 February 1945, serial number D31 000,001/D32 100,000, purple, portrait King George VI at right, arms top centre, reverse, denomination in ornate tablet at centre (Linzmayer SRCB B2b2s, Pick 8), ink annotations along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN low centre, faint glue residue at right on reverse, otherwise about uncirculated to uncirculated £400-600
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 5 shillings, 1 October 1945, serial number D41 000,001/D42 100,000, mauve, Beadle signature, and printer's archival specimen 10 shillings, 1 September 1951, serial number A/112 000,001/A/14 100,000, russet brown, both portrait King George VI at right, arms top centre, reverse, value in ornate tablet at centre and Victoria Falls at centre, respectively (Linzmayer SRCB B3j1s, Pick 5, 10) the first note this prefix unlisted in Linzmayer. First, ink annotations, perforated SPECIMEN, slight glue residue, otherwise about uncirculated, second, ink annotations, perforated SPECIMEN, small section missing at centre right, very to extremely fine £200-400
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 10 shillings (2), 1 February 1945, serial numbers A/39 000,001/A/40 100,001 and A/41 000,001/A/42 100,000, russet brown on multicolour, portrait King George VI at right, arms top centre and landscape at low centre, reverse, Victoria Falls at centre, sable at right (Pick 9), first, perforated SPECIMEN, corner fold top left, ink annotations top margin, paper residue at right, extremely fine, second, ink annotations along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN, very slight glue residue top right, extremely fine to about uncirculated (2) £400-500
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 10 shillings (2), 1 February 1945, serial numbers A/43 000,001/A/44 100,000 and A/45 000,001/A/46 100,000, russet brown on multicolour, portrait King George VI at right, landscape scene low centre, arms top centre, the A/45 Tucker and Beadle signatures, reverse, Victoria Falls at centre, sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B3d4s, d5s var., 2a3sPick 9), the A/45 unlisted in Linzmayer. First, ink annotation top margin, perforated SPECIMEN, minimal traces of glue residue at right, about uncirculated, second, ink annotations top margin, perforated SPECIMEN, corner fold top right and faint fold low left, slight paper and glue residue at left, extremely fine (2) £300-500
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 10 shillings (3), 15 March 1946, serial numbers A/47 000,001/A/48 100,000, A/49 000,001/A/5- 100,000 and A/51 000,001/A/52 100,000, russet and multicolour, portrait King George VI at left, arms top centre, landscape scene low centre, reverse, Victoria Falls, sable at right (Linzmayer SRCB B3e1s, 3e2s, 3e3s, Pick 9), ink annotations along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN, about uncirculated (3) £400-600
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 10 shillings, 1 March 1946, serial number A/51 000,001/A52 100,000, russet on multicolour underprint, portrait King George VI at right, arms top centre, landscape low centre, Sanders and Beadle signatures, reverse, Victoria Falls at centre, sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B3e3s, Pick 9), ink annotations along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN low centre, about uncirculated to uncirculated ink annotations along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN low centre, tiny corner fold top left, one faint vertical fold, about uncirculated £350-550
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 10 shillings (3), 1 September 1951, prefixes A/124-A/126, A/127-A/129, A/130/A/131, russet brown, portrait King George VI at right, arms top centre, landscape scene low centre, Strachan-Munro, Jeffreys-Munro and Cochran-Munro signatures respectively, reverse, Victoria Falls, sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B3j5s, j6s, j7s, Pick 9), the last three prefixes for issue. All with ink annotations along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN, about extremely fine or better (3) £600-800
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £1, 1 February 1945, serial number B/29000,000, green on multicolour underprint, portrait King George VI at right, landscape low left, arms top centre, Sanders and Beadle signatures, reverse, sable at left, ruins at centre (Linzmayer SRCB B4d1s, Pick 10), signature variety not listed in Linzmayer. Ink annotation and date along top margin, red stamp SPECIMEN OF NO VALUE top left, hole punched, small indentation top left, about uncirculated £300-400
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £1 (2), 1 February 1945, identical serial numbers B28 080,000/B/30 100,000, green on multicolour, portrait King George VI at right, rural landscape low left, arms top centre, Gordon and Beadle signatures, reverse, ruins at centre, sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B4d1s, Pick 10), perforated SPECIMEN low centre, ink annotations along top margin, about uncirculated (2) £500-700
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £1 (2), 1 February 1945, serial numbers B/31 000,001/B/32 100,000 and B33 000,001/B/34 100,000, green on multicolour, portrait King George VI at right, arms top centre, landscape low left, Milne-Beadle, Sanders-Beadle signatures, reverse, ruins at centre and sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B4d2s, d3s, Pick 10), perforated SPECIMEN, ink annotations along top margin, some slight wrinkling, otherwise about uncirculated £400-600
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, specimen £1, Salisbury, 15 January 1947, serial number B/54 000001-B/56 100000, green, orange and lilac, George VI at right, pastoral scene at low left, arms top centre, Jeffreys and Beadle signatures low right, reverse green, Sable antelope at left, ruins at centre, value low centre and at each corner (Linzmayer SRCB B4e3s, Pick 10s), ink date '24.6.46' in top margin, perforated CANCELLED, uncirculated and rare £400-600
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, specimen £1, 1 January 1948, serial number B/69 000001-B/71 100,000, green on multicolour, King George VI at right, arms top centre, rural scene low left, Jeffreys and Beadle signatures, reverse, sable at left, ruins at centre (Linzmayer SRCB B4g1s, Pick 10s), ink annotation along top margin, perforated SPECIMEN low centre, uncirculated £400-600
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £5, 1 September 1951, serial number run C/17 000,001 to C/17 100,000, signatures of Gordon and Munro, blue, brown and multicoloured, portrait of King George VI at right, factory at lower centre, reverse sable at left, Victoria Falls at centre, perforated SPECIMEN (Linzmayer SRCB B6i1s, Pick 11fs), ink date '11/ 9/ 51' and annotations in reverse top margin, otherwise very fine, rare £300-400
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, specimen 10 shillings, 1 December 1952, serial number A/132 000,000, signatures Grafftey-Smith and Taylor, red-brown and multicoloured, portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at right, arms at upper centre, pastoral scene at lower centre, reverse sable at left, Victoria Falls at centre, perforated CANCELLED (Linzmayer SRCB B7a1s, Pick 12as), ink date '8. 1. 53' and annotations in top margin, otherwise choice good very fine to about extremely fine, rare £250-350
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen 10 shillings, 1 December 1952, serial number A/135 000,001/A/137 100,000, russet brown on multicolour, portrait Queen Elizabeth II at right, arms top centre, landscape scene low centre, Pechey and Grafftey-Smith signatures, reverse, Victoria Falls at centre, sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B7a2s, Pick 12s), perforated SPECIMEN, ink annotations top margin, ink residue left and right, vertical fold at left, otherwise extremely fine £250-350
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Central Africa Currency Board, Southern Rhodesia, specimen proof 10 shillings, 10 September 1955, serial number A/192 000,000, signatures Grafftey-Smith and Greenfield, red-brown and multicoloured, portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at right, arms at upper centre, pastoral scene at lower centre, reverse sable at left, Victoria Falls at centre, two punch holes (Linzmayer CABC B1a5svar., Pick 16s), this prefix not listed by Linzmayer, ink annotation 'For and on behalf of the Central Africa Currency Board, The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, as Agent, Approved 5. 1. 1956' and signed by General Manager in reverse top margin, two pinholes, otherwise about extremely fine and a very rare interesting proof £200-300
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen, £1, 1 December 1952, serial numbers B/169 000,000, green on multicolour underprint, portrait Queen Elizabeth II at right, arms top centre, landscape low left, Taylor and Grafftey-Smith signatures, reverse, ruins at centre, sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B8a1s, Pick 13s), first prefix for issue. Ink annotations along top margin, stain at right, faint vertical folds, extremely fine £300-400
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £1, 1 December 1952, serial number B/169 000,000, green and multicolour, portrait Queen Elizabeth II at right, arms top centre, rural landscape low left, Taylor and Grafftey-Smith signatures, reverse, sable at left and ruins at centre (Linzmayer SRCB B8a1s, Pick 13), typescript approval along top margin and signed by manager of the Currency Board, hole punched, three vertical folds, extremely fine or better £300-500
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, specimen £1, Salisbury, 3 January 1953, serial number B/199 000001-B/203 100000, green, orange and lilac, Elizabeth II at right at right, pastoral scene at low left, arms top centre, Taylor and Grafftey-Smith signatures low centre, reverse green, Sable antelope at left, ruins at centre, value low centre and at each corner (Linzmayer SRCB B8b1s, Pick 13s), ink date '15.12.52' in top margin, perforated SPECIMEN, uncirculated and rare £250-350
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £1, 10 March 1954, serial number run B/229 000,001 to B/235 100,000, signatures Jeffreys and Grafftey-Smith, green and multicoloured, portrait of King George VI at right, arms at upper centre, pastoral scene at lower left, reverse sable at left, Zimbabwe ruins at centre, perforated SPECIMEN (Linzmayer SRCB B8c1s, Pick 10s), ink date '5/11/54 and 5/3/54' on reverse, otherwise good extremely fine, rare £200-300
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board/Central Africa Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £1 (2), 1 December 1952 and 10 September 1955, serial numbers B189 000,001/ B/193 100,000 and B269 000,001/B276 100,000 respectively, both green and multicolour, portrait Queen Elizabeth II at right, arms top centre, landscape scene low left, both Jeffreys-Grafftey-Smith signatures, reverse, sable at right, ruins at centre (Linzmayer SRCB B8a6s, CACB B2a1s, Pick 13s, 17s), first, several folds, printer's ink smudges at right, ink annotations at top margin, extremely fine, second, several folds at right, slight glue residue at right, pencil annotation top left, extremely fine (2) £400-500
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Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, printer's archival specimen £5, 3 January 1953, serial number C/25 100,000/C/25 000,001, multicolour, portrait Queen Elizabeth II at right, industrial scene low centre, ornate frame at left, Taylor and Grafftey-Smith signatures, reverse, Victoria Falls at centre, sable at left (Linzmayer SRCB B9a1s, Pick 14s), first date for issue. Perforated SPECIMEN, ink annotations top margin, some faint folds and ink smudges, otherwise extremely fine to about uncirculated £400-500
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Barclays Bank D.C.O., Southwest Africa, uniface obverse and reverse die proof for 10/-, ND (1931 issue), black on white paper, sheep and farmer at left, value at centre and each corner, reverse sailing ship at centre (Pick S1 for type), various ink annotations on both sides, extremely fine and very rare (2) £300-400
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Barclays Bank D.C.O., Southwest Africa, uniface obverse and reverse die proof for £1, ND (1931 issue), black on white paper, sheep and farmer at left, value at centre and each corner, reverse sailing ship at centre (Pick S2 for type), various ink annotations on both sides, reverse with a tear in top margin but good very fine to extremely fine and very rare (2) £300-400
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