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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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| Value | 1 Baht |
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| Obverse description | Pink intaglio note on white paper with a fine guilloche underprint framing the central text panel; the bank's name, THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, is engraved in bold letterpress across the upper portion, surmounted by a royal arms vignette, with the English promise-to-pay clause reading ONE TICAL below and the numeral 1 repeated at each corner. Thai-script legends appear in the left and right margins, the place name BANGKOK is printed at the foot, and manuscript signatures of the Accountant and Manager appear in the lower centre field alongside the date. The imprint of the engraver, Barclay & Fry, London, is present in the lower margin. |
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| 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. |
| Reverse lettering | ๑ ๑ ฮองกงและเชียงไฮ้แบงกิงกอปอเรชัน สัญญกว่า เมื่อผู้ ใด หนึ่ง } ได้นํฃหนังสือสำคัญฉบับนี้ มายื่นทิ่ห้างข้าทเจ้าในหัวเมืองนี้แล้ว ฃา้ทเจา้จะใช้ เงินให้แก่ผู้นั้นในทันใด เปนเงินสยาม หนึ่ง บาท โดยบัญท่แห่งผู้บังคัปการนี้ กรุงเทพฯ ๑ ๑ |
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