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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China |
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| Year | 1882-1886 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and red on cream paper, the obverse carries the Royal Arms vignette at upper centre, flanked on each side by the numeral '10' set within interlocking guilloche rosette panels. The border incorporates multilingual text in Jawi, Chinese, Tamil, and Arabic scripts. A red underprint with a large '10' in ornamental lettering occupies the central text panel, over which the bank's promise-to-pay legend is letterpress-printed in black script and Gothic type, with the branch location 'MALACCA' and manuscript date at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche composition consisting of an oval lathe-work medallion flanked by a horizontal band of interconnected circular rosettes, each containing fine engine-turned geometric patterns. The numeral '10' appears within the two outermost rosette clusters at left and right. The printer's imprint 'Perkins Bacon & Co. London' is visible in small type beneath the central medallion. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 |
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