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1 Baht / 1 Tical HSBC, no rim lettering
| Issuer | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 1 เปนเงินสยาม หนึ่ง เปนเงินสยาม หนึ่ง ฮองกงและเชียงไฮ้แบงกิงกอปอเรชัน № 1715 № 1715 THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE TICAL Local Currency at its Office here value received By Order of the Board of Directors. BANGKOK 1 July 1889 Acc.ᵗ Manager กรุงเทพฯ กรุงเทพฯ BANGKOK. 1 1 Engraved on Steel by Barclay & Fry, London |
| Reverse description | Plain pink-tinted reverse on white paper, printed entirely in Thai letterpress script within a simple single-line rectangular border with small numeral ornaments at each corner. The text panel carries the Thai-language rendering of the banking corporation's name at the top, followed by the full promise-to-pay text in Thai, and concludes with the place name กรุงเทพฯ (Bangkok) at the lower left. The design is entirely typographic, with no pictorial vignette or guilloche work. |
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation held the right to issue banknotes in Siam during the late nineteenth century, one of the few foreign commercial banks permitted to do so. This 1889 issue is denominated in both Baht and Tical — the same unit, two names, reflecting the transitional spelling conventions of the period before Siam standardized its English transliteration.
The "no rim lettering" distinction separates this from closely related varieties carrying additional text around the note's border, a detail critical to correct attribution within the S121 series. Barclay & Fry, the London security printers responsible for the production, ceased operations in 1922 — their work on colonial and foreign bank issues across Asia and Africa is now their primary numismatic footprint.