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| Emittente | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Anno | 1889 |
| Tipo | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Valore | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Valuta | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Composizione | Paper |
| Dimensioni | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Forma | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Stampatore | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Disegnatore/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Incisore/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| In circolazione fino al | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Riferimento/i | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione del dritto | 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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| Legenda del dritto | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione del rovescio | 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. |
| Legenda del rovescio | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Firma/e | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Tipo di protezione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Descrizione della protezione | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Varianti | Accedi per vedere i dettagli |
| Commenti |
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.