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№ 353

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24 April 2014

Hammer Price:
£2,500

Provisional Government, Two Hundred and Fifty Grosia (Piastres), 1826, Nafplion, an uncut pair, nos. 1182 and 1183, signatures of Alexandros Mavrokordatos (Chairman), Panoutsos Notaras (Minister of Finance) and Theodoris Negris (Chief Secretary) (Pick 2). Slight damage in top margin and a short tear in lower edge, a few pinholes in first note and a pencilled number at top right, otherwise extremely fine and rare as an uncut pair £2,500-3,000

Part of the first issue of currency in revolutionary Greece. The blue pencil markings at upper right on the first note confirm provenance to the Stamatios Levidis archive