Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Portuguese Guinea, printers’ archival specimen 100 Escudos (2), 27 March 1947, serial number ranges 080001 to 085000 and 085001 to 090000, Antonio Pedroso Pimenta and Joao Baptista de Araujo signatures, perforated SPECIMEN, order numbers and dates inked in top margins, in PMG holders 50, about uncirculated and 40, extremely fine, the first and second of 14 print runs (2 notes)
BNU PG45as, bs, Pick 35s £200-£260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Laurence Pope Collection of Portuguese Colonial Banknotes.

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The first is the BNU plate note.