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Auction: 25008 - World Banknotes
Lot: 28

Union Bank of Burma, specimen 5 Rupees, ND (1953), serial number IM000000, (Pick 39s, BNB 802), solid good about uncirculated. Profoundly important and tangible piece of currency history. Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant of Raymond Newton Kershaw, who served on the East African, West African, Burma and Palestine Currency Boards. Kershaw was a member of the Colonial Office Currency Committee, advising the Colonial Secretary, and also found time to work on the Bank’s committees dealing with currency issues in China and in India (according to his biography by James Cotton on the People Australia website, from the National Centre of Biography).

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Estimate
£500 to £800

Starting price
£400