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December 8, 2015 - LONDON
NICARAGUA
URUGUAY
x490 Banco Central de Nicaragua, specimen 100 cordobas, 1945, zero serial numbers, red on multicolour underprint, female allegory with fruit and altar at right, value at centre left and each corner, reverse olive-brown, blue SPECIMEN overprint, three cancellation holes (Pick 97s), pencil annotations on reverse, about uncirculated and scarce £150-200
493 Banco de Londres y Rio de la Plata, Uruguay, 50 pesos (2), 1 January 1872, serial numbers 013401, 013458, with counterfoil, light green and brown, ornate panel at right, Liberty at left, bank title top centre with value in panel at centre, 100 pesos, 23 June 1862, serial number 63424, with counterfoil, black on light yellow and green underprint, portrait Christopher Columbus at left, boy with rope at right (Pick S238, 245), first, extremely fine to about uncirculated, second and third, staple holes at left, very fine (3) £100-150
†494 Banco de Londres y Rio de la Plata, an obverse printers archival proof for 100 pesos, Montevideo, 187 -, black print, portrait of Christopher Columbus at left and boy with rope at right in ornate circles, with counterfoil (Pick S242 for type), slight damage to counterfoil, good very fine, very rare £300-400
x491 Banco Central de Nicaragua, specimen 500 cordobas, 1962, zero serial numbers black on multicolour underprint, R. Dario at centre, value at centre left and right, and each corner, reverse black, F. Hernandez Cordoba at centre, black SPECIMEN overprint and two cancellation holes (Pick 113s), pencil annotation on reverse, uncirculated and scarce £100-150
PERU 492 An interesting group of Peruvian banknotes, comprising El Banco de Lima, 4 soles, 1870, serial number 346675, 8 soles, 18—, serial number 5838, Banco Garantizador, 2 soles, 1986, serial number 92907, El Banco de Tacna, 1 sol, 18-, serial number 34434, Republica del Peru, cancelled 5 soles, 1979, 20 soles, 1879, 5 reales de inca on 5 soles, 1881, hole punched (Pick S165, S242-3, S382, 3, 7, 12), first three notes very good, remainder fine to extremely fine (7) £200-300
†495 Republica Oriental del Uruguay, an obverse and reverse composite essay, mounted on a single board, for a 100 pesos, Law of 2 January 1939, zero serial numbers, red, brown and multicoloured, portrait of Jose Gervasio Artigas at right, arms at centre, reverse man presiding at independence meeting, value in each corner (Pick unrecorded - reverse similar to Pick 47), about uncirculated to uncirculated, unique £300-500 117